Hi,
In the last three months I've been spending some time in the creation of
a java library to work with spacewalklib API. The idea behind is being
able to integrate spacewalk or satellite server in any Java application,
specially to work within datacenters orchestrators or other system
management tools that provide a way to extend their capabilities with
Java code.
I've called it spacewalklib and I've created a project in sourceforge
for it http://spacewalklib.sourceforge.net/
As it's primarly intended to manage client systems, I've focused in the
client management more that in the tool management itself (for example,
I did not implement channels creation or cloning yet), however
additional features in future may be added if required.
In addition to the library itself, I've created some classes to use
spacewalklib to create workflows with jBPM (workflow engine in JBoss) as
a proof of concept. This may be highly improved but I think it can give
an idea about what can be done.
Some resources that I think can be helpful:
- Main web: http://spacewalklib.sourceforge.net/
- Blog: https://sourceforge.net/apps/wordpress/spacewalklib/
- Javadoc documentation: http://spacewalklib.sourceforge.net/javadoc
- Git repository that contains (can be browsed in
http://spacewalklib.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=spacewalklib/spacewalklib;a=summary
):
1. doc: documentation in javadoc format.
2. lib: spacewalk library in jar format. Only the classes of
spacewalklib package are included in the jar file.
3. source: source code files. Following packages have been created:
* spacewalklib/spacewalklib: is the actual spacewalklib package.
* spacewalklib/junit_tests: contains some junit tests created during
the development. They have been created for a specific environment
so they can not be executed as found in other environments, but
are added as an code examples.
* spacewalklib/spacewalklib/jbpm: it contains spacewalklib.jbpm
package, composed of a set of classes used as Handlers for JBPM
processes.
* spacewalklib/jpdl: contains a set of jpbm created as examples of
use of spacewalklib.
- I've uploaded a video to youtube with a demo of spacewalklib
integration in jBPM in http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Baep5hpcvbE .
Note that I've created this library as a Thesis Project for a Master
Degree in Free Software and I'm not a very experienced developer in Java
so I'm sure that the code can be improved, however, I hope it can be
useful for you and give you some ideas about integration of spacewalk
with other tools and creation of more complex sequence of tasks to
manage Linux systems.
Best regards,
Alfredo Moralejo
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