On 1 Aug 07, at 12:25 AM 1 Aug 07, Shane Isbell wrote:
I would like to see if there is any general interest from the Maven
community in using RDF for storing and retrieving of repository
information.
As the only means, and not accessed via some API shielding the
underlying store then my vote will always be -1. I hope that's not
what you've done with NMaven as that would be a fatal flaw. I'm
assuming there is some API sitting on top of it.
I switched NMaven's resolver implementation to one using RDF and am
happy
with the results. This implementation allows: 1) easily extending
meta-data,
Which I'm always skeptical of as we potentially wind up which schisms
and I'm not sure what kind of extension you need for purely
dependency information which the resolver is concerned with.
in my case for attaching requirements to an artifact; 2) writing
queries
against the repo, as opposed to reading and manipulating the
hierarchy of
poms. This also results in cleaner, simpler code;
This should be done with an API, not against a fixed datastore. Using
RDF and only RDF is not something I would ever support because I know
of two implementations of repository managers that use their own
internal format. Proximity uses one and I use Lucene indices so the
unifier will be an API.
3) exporting all the
meta-data to a single RDF/XML file, which has helped me with
debugging and
understanding the entire repository. A future benefit would be the
ability
to run distributed queries across multiple repos.
It's sounding like you've build this on RDF which I don't think is
wise at all. For example this is not hard with any underlying store
with the right API. I don't think it would be hard for you to use an
API though. I'll never support a single storage format that isn't
accessed via an API.
One of the implications is that while the pom is still used for
building,
the local and remote repositories would just contain RDF/XML files:
this
would, of course, be a big change. I would just like to run this
idea by the
general group; if there is enough interest, I would be happy to do
some
prototype work to see how RDF would work within Maven core. You can
look at
one of NMaven's core classes that used RDF here:
https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/nmaven/trunk/components/
dotnet-dao/project/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/dotnet/dao/impl/
As a backing store for a rework of the artifact API sure, as the
primary means. I'd never support that myself.
Regards,
Shane
Thanks,
Jason
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Jason van Zyl
Founder and PMC Chair, Apache Maven
jason at sonatype dot com
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