On 09/15/2010 08:09 AM, Andersen Max wrote:
Let us know what you think and as always we are very open for for
feedback/contributions.
Do you bundle the deltacloud server within Eclipse ? Since there aren't
any public instances (that I know of), users will have to run their own.
For now we assume users connect to an external deltacloud running locally or
remotely.
from what I understand deltacloud today requires native components thus I didn't
even consider bundling it because of the many environments we would have to
test/verify it in.
If deltacloud could run in a pure JRuby setup it might be worth
considering...but for
now its external.
Another idea would be if something like jcloud would provide a deltacloud api
implementation;
that would probably fit better/easier into a portable java setup. WDYT?
p.s. big kudos for Jeff J. to make this happen at the same time as the
deltacloud API kept changing ;)
Ugh .. sorry about that. Which parts of the API exactly are you using ?
From the screenshots, it looks like you're definitely using images,
instances and keypairs; anything else ?
I'll let Jeff answer that ;)
That's essentially it.
And what would you like to see added to the API to make your life easier
and the Eclipse integration more powerful ? What are you using as the
client library in Java, or are you doing straightup REST in your code ?
The key name is a bit of a pain. When I fetch instances, everything is
there but not the key name. When I query a single instance, it is
there. The problem is when the user asks for a refresh. This gets all
the instances and wipes out the key names which means I have to keep
track of this all the time. It would easier just to unmarshall the key
data each time.
I believe Jeff took the existing Java client library and "mutated" it to be
compatible with the recent changes.
Yes, I took an early version of the Java client code developed by Martyn
Taylor and made fixes to match various API changes. I tried switching
to a newer version that Martyn had provided, but it broke a bunch of
things so I just opted to continue my hacking. I intend to eventually
try Martyn's code again and work with any issues.
I brought in some jar files for external packages that are needed. I
don't know whether this is ok in the long run for JBoss. Things include
log4j and httpclient.
I know there are some issues with that library in context of osgi/eclipse
environments so we might
have some changes for that going forward.
/max
-- Jeff J.
