Does anyone else have any comments or objections before we go down
this path?
geir
On Aug 1, 2005, at 5:29 PM, Sachin Patel wrote:
Great. I assuming no one else has any strong objections. If not,
I'll be glad to start driving this. I'm not sure about the
licensing issues... I'll shoot of a note to the eclipse folks.
Thanks.
Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote:
I think it would be great to have it here.
Question - we would need to have it re-licensed under the Apache
License v2.0. Is that possible?
geir
On Jul 29, 2005, at 9:28 PM, Sachin Patel wrote:
Hello all,
It seems as if a decision needs to be made to determine the
appropiate place to host the Eclipse tooling support for
Geronimo, in particular the Geronimo Server Adapter that is
currently in development in the Eclipse - WTP project.
http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/library/os-gerplug/
As I've made enhancements to this Geronimo tooling support, I've
been forced to pull in Geronimo runtime dependencies, for access
not only to the Geronimo runtime itself but to JEE spec jars.
Discussions have arose as I've been working with the Eclipse WTP
team to push these changes in. It is their belief that if this
server adapter is pulling in third party jars then it falls
under the category of being a full-fledged adapter that is too
large to host and be a part of WTP. The existing adapters for
the other application servers that are included in WTP are
lightweight and serve primarily as examples for basic support.
There has been some discussion planning to provide the JMX jars
and a set of utilties as part of WTP that other server adapters
can exploit. However this is not expected until WTP 1.5 in June
06 at the earliest. This is not good for the Geronimo
community. We need an immediate place to host this source so
the community can have the latest source to start using, opening
bugs and feature requests, and contributing to it. As everyone
works hard toward the completion of the Geronimo's first release
it would be great if we had a good start for tooling support to
go along with 1.0.
So the first decision we need to come to is where should this be
hosted? The first option is creating a sourceforge project and
build a secondary community around it. The other, is to host on
Apache itself as part of the Geronimo project. The latter I
feel is a much better option as by simply including it as part
of the Geronimo project itself, it provides a much stronger
integration statement to the existing community. So the Apache
Geronimo project would include not only the development of
server itself but also the tooling that goes along with it.
So the proposal is that we create a seperate branch for tooling
in subversion and host the source there. The next step would be
to provide the build and packaging infrastructure to go around
it and to be able to pull down dependencies to build which
include Eclipse, WTP, and of course the Geronimo runtime itself.
Thoughts, objections, comments???
Thank you,
Sachin.
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