On Jan 25, 2008 1:16 PM, Simon Laws <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Sebastien/Ant
>
> >
> > > Here's a longer scenario, showing how I want to use contributions and
> > > composites in a domain for the store tutorial I've been working on.
> >
>  A real eye opener. Thank you for this.
>
> snip...
>
> >
> > getting this to work on a single node first without the gui and
> individual
> >
> > deployment steps and then add those things once we have something basic
> > working?
>
> How about the following as some first steps.
>
> 1. Disengage the Node from the domain in the way that it is connected at
> the
> moment  leaving the Node able to load Contributions and start composites
> as
> it does currently  in stand alone mode. Doing this we remove the sca
> application that is used to connect the node to the domain and the need to
> pull in WS, JSON etc that came up on another thread.
>
> 2. Wrap the Node in the first run options we want to test with (standalone
> and tomcat webapp would give us enough to try most of the samples). Add
> the
> code that loads all contributions that are available from the file system.
> Ant already has this code in various forms
>
> 3. As an experiment make a Domain that takes as input
>  a - Contributions from disc (again can re-use Ant's contribution loading
> code)
>  b - a topology file something like [1]
>
>  and produces as output
>
>  c - a list of which contributions need to be copied to which node and
> appropriate warnings about missing dependencies
>  d - updated contributions/composites so that references that refer to
> services in remote nodes have absolute URLs written in to appropriate
> bindings.
>
>  We also have most of the code already to do a-d in various places. d is
> the trickiest bit but provides the ideal opportunity to tidy up the
> binding
> URL calculation story.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Simon
>
> [1] http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg26561.html
>

Sounds fine to me, and to try and progress things along unless there's
alternative suggestions I'd like to make a start at this. Any help welcomed,
first for me will be to get the store tutorial contributions running in a
single node.

   ...ant

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