Ian - please do add the autosync use case to the wiki page I created.
On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 9:47 PM, Ian Boston <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > +1 to that. After working on sling for many years doing a mixture of bundle > and UI work, mainly using the FileSystemResolver bundle, I realise now if > VLT had been available with sync mode (ie auto syncing the repo and the > file system), we (the team I was working with at the time) would have made > much more rapid progress. UI dev work needs file-save-refresh. The in > browser editing UIs deliver this, as does VLT in sync mode, but > unfortunately native eclipse based tooling is just too slow (on my machine, > might be my machine). Using VLT since I joined Adobe, has been a joy, and I > am very glad to know its being donated to the ASF. > > Had we had VLT then, we would have developed in a very different way, and > might not have had half the problems we had with tooling and team > structure. > Ian > > > On 31 May 2013 10:16, Justin Edelson <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > I would strongly suggest that this effort be based on VLT. As mentioned > on > > the wiki page, we're in the process of moving that to ASF and I think > once > > the code is available, it will be clear that it provides a good low-level > > interface for this type of UI. > > > > While it is true that VLT currently only works with DavEX servers, I > > suspect it would not be hard to isolate the "Ex" bits and have a "WebDAV" > > only driver which could be used on non-JCR applications for basic file > > operations. > > > > My concern is that we end up building one more abstraction which is going > > to sit on top of all the other abstractions (VLT, Dav(Ex), JCR, MK, > etc.). > > > > I know VLT has some baggage, but I'd just ask that people keep an open > > mind. > > > > Separately, I'm going to start a child page of this wiki page to gather > use > > cases. There are some functional areas listed on the main page, but I > think > > we should try to capture individual use cases. > > > > Regards, > > Justin > > > > > > On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 10:48 AM, Robert Munteanu <[email protected] > > >wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > Following Antonio's kick-start of the Sling developer tooling [1] I've > > > gathered some thoughts about the initial goals and implementation of > our > > > Sling IDE tooling. > > > > > > The document is at [2] so please have a look and let me know what your > > > thoughts are. I intend to take a pass at the code next week and align > it > > > to the proposed structure, as a foundation for feature work. > > > > > > Robert > > > > > > [1]: https://cwiki.apache.org/SLING/slingclipse.html > > > [2]: > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/SLING/Sling+IDE+tooling > > > > > > > > >
