Thanks Imesh - I look forward to receiving your instructions. I have checked out the git branch for 4.0.0-incubating-m3 and imported it into eclipse without build errors.
What is the normal development workflow? For example, do you run the LB in a container from within eclipse? Do you need the MB installed for testing? Many thanks, Chris On 28 Nov 2013 09:34, "Imesh Gunaratne" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Chris, > > It's really nice to hear from you and appreciate your contributions so far. > > Yes its definitely possible to work on components like load balancer in > isolation with the new message driven architecture. I will send a separate > mail describing how to setup the development environment for the load > balancer. > > At the moment we have list of items to be implemented in Stratos load > balancer. You could find the complete task list here [1]. > > 1. New functionality to expose load balancing statistics to a file or > socket (or both): > At the moment we have support for publishing load balancing statistics to > a Complex Event Processor but we may also need to publish them to a > file/socket for easy access. > > 2. New functionality to replicate state of the load balancer: > We need to implement a state replication functionality to be able to > replicate sessions to other load balancers in a cluster. > > More importantly if you have suggestions for improvements those could also > be discussed and implemented. > > [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/STRATOS-97 > > Many Thanks > Imesh > > > On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 2:20 PM, chris snow <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Is there something that can be done to introduce developers to smaller >> standalone parts of the code base? >> >> In my spare time (evenings, weekends, etc), I'm trying to understand the >> overall architecture and all of the components, but that is quite a lot of >> code to trawl through. It will be quite some time before I am really able >> to contribute. >> >> If I could focus on one smaller component, for example load balancer, >> then it will be much quicker for me to get up to speed and start >> contributing. >> >> Is it possible to work on components (like load balancer) in isolation? >> For example, is it possible to build and deploy the load balancer >> standalone or run it from eclipse without having to worry about the rest of >> the stratos codebase? >> >> >
