Hi Jaaron, hm - first of all - I'm very new to this forum and to merlin.
But I'm really fascinated of that technology. But what is needed in my point of view is a good integration of merlin in an ide. So if you are thinking in developing an gui - why not having an integrated gui to the repository in the ide? I've just started a plugin for Eclipse - for now, I can start and debug the merlin server in the ide - a repository browser would be a snap, because I already parsed all the jars for classpath settings. Which ide are you usually using to develop merlin?? Andreas > -----Original Message----- > From: J Aaron Farr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Donnerstag, 9. Oktober 2003 18:42 > To: Avalon Developers List > Subject: Re: Repository listing > > Quoting Yannick Menager <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > I was thinking of writing a GUI tool to help assemble merlin > > applications, and It would have been nice if it could just go to the > > repository and list retrieve a list of all available components. > > > > Unless I'm wrong, at this moment that is not possible unless i was to do > > some screen scrapping of the index.htmls, which would be a huge PITA ( > > not to mention might not work if the remote repository customised those > > pages ). > > > > It would be then nice to have a standard listing file, with details > > about all the components available in the remote repository. > > > > What do you guys think ? > > Additional tools like this are much needed. It's been on my 'to do' list > for > months. > > On a related note, I've been thinking of putting together a cocoon web app > that > would be a web front end to a maven-style repository. It could parse the > directories and give you and easy way to see (and query) what's available > in the > repository, what's the latest version, and short descriptions (using maven > POM's) of the projects. If this were properly put together we could have > it > communicate to any client GUI app like you're talking about very easily. > That > way you don't have to parse index.html-like files. Instead, the web app > could > send an XML representation of the repository. > > Yeah, the more I think about this, the more I think it would be a good > idea. If > you're interested, I could work on this web-app back end and could provide > what > you need for the GUI side. What do you think? > > --- > jaaron <http://jadetower.org> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
