Yay.  Thanks Aaron.  I'll take a look at that before I start hacking
on the GUI addons for the 6.9 and 7.0 release of Hackystat.

Thanks everyone for the replies :)  It seems that I've been very
inefficient since the hackyInstaller integration.

Cheers,
austen

On 10/12/05, Aaron Kagawa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Ok, so I figured it out.  Well, almost.
>
> 1) Run org.hackystat.kernel.installer.controller.Control as a Java Application
> 2) Add
> "-DinstallerResources=C:\java\cvs\hackyBuild\build\war\WEB-INF\installer"
> or something similar to the VM arguments. This can be set by clicking on
> Run... , then go to the arguments tab.
> 3) The tricky thing is that you have to delete all the sensor
> installer.<sensor>.xml files from the
> "C:\java\cvs\hackyBuild\build\war\WEB-INF\installer" directory, because
> HackyInstaller will try to load the sensor installer implementations. For
> example, you will get:
>
> HackyInstaller Version:
> Wed Oct 12 22:18:49 HST 2005: GUI initialized.
> org.hackystat.stdext.sensor.ant.locc.installer.LoccSensorInstallerjava.lang.ClassNotFoundException:
> org.hackystat.stdext.sensor.ant.locc.installer.LoccSensorInstaller
>          at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:200)
>          at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
>          at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:188)
>          at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:306)
>          at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:268)
>          at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:251)
>          at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(ClassLoader.java:319)
>          at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method)
>          at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:164)
>          at
> org.hackystat.kernel.installer.model.sensor.SensorDescriber.getInstallerInstance(SensorDescriber.java:156)
>          at
> org.hackystat.kernel.installer.model.path.ConfigPersistor.persistSensorVersions(ConfigPersistor.java:285)
>          at
> org.hackystat.kernel.installer.util.Environment.systemCheck(Environment.java:234)
>          at
> org.hackystat.kernel.installer.controller.Control$1.construct(Control.java:161)
>          at
> EDU.oswego.cs.dl.util.concurrent.misc.SwingWorker$2.call(Unknown Source)
>          at EDU.oswego.cs.dl.util.concurrent.FutureResult$1.run(Unknown 
> Source)
>          at EDU.oswego.cs.dl.util.concurrent.misc.SwingWorker.run(Unknown
> Source)
>          at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595)
>
> So, delete these installer.<sensor>.xml files.  But, you have to leave
> proxy.xml, installer.common.xml, hackyinstaller.xsd, and usermaps.xsd.
>
> 4) Run the Control class.  You will see an "empty" hackyInstaller
> application, which will let you test out all the buttons that don't do
> things with sensors.
>
> I'll leave it to you guys to figure out how to run hackyInstaller with a
> sensor.  Note, that I was thinking that we could make hackyInstaller depend
> on hackyAnt, but that is not possible because hackyAnt depends on
> hackyInstaller.  But, you see that hackyInstaller functionally depends
> (through reflection) on hackyAnt.  Circle dependency!
>
> I hope that solves some of the build time problems for you InstallHack guys.
>
> thanks, aaron
>
>
> At 09:24 PM 10/12/2005, you wrote:
> >I've been looking at running hackyInstaller through eclipse, i.e. running
> >Control.main() as a Java Application. There are some problems with getting
> >the right System.properties.  For example, I'm not quite sure how
> >installerResources gets set or how it is used.  It is probably really
> >worth sitting down for a couple of hours (if it even takes that long) to
> >figure out how to do it.  Then you can run hackyInstaller for these GUI UI
> >debugging without even the Ant based build.
> >
> >Austin, Hongbing is probably the best person to help you figure this out.
> >
> >thanks, aaron
> >
> >At 09:17 PM 10/12/2005, Philip Johnson wrote:
> >>--On Wednesday, October 12, 2005 6:32 PM -1000 Aaron Kagawa
> >><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>
> >>>>And maybe the GUI creation process won't be as painful when the new
> >>>>build  system is in.
> >>
> >>Whoa, using even quickStart to do your kind of GUI UI debugging is way
> >>too much overhead!
> >>
> >>For this kind of iterative development, you should create an ant target
> >>(in hackyInstaller/local.build.xml) that just recompiles the sources and
> >>then invokes <java> with the appropriate classpath and main class to
> >>start with. Two or three seconds max should be all you should need wait
> >>for the window.
> >>
> >>As Aaron says, of course run the test suite before committing your
> >>changes, but if you're just doing button placement there's no sense in
> >>redeploying the server or anything.
> >>
> >>Cheers,
> >>Philip
>

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