Many of us have experienced build breaks over the past several weeks,
particularly in the Java SCA project. I believe the root of the
problem to be not having the correct level of modularity. I would
like to start with a general approach on how to fix this and once we
gain consensus, move to creating a proposal for changing the current
build structure.
1. The source tree should be independently built from individual
projects under /java, sca, sdo, and das. Currently it is not since
buildtools is required. I would like to get to the point where people
can check out individual sub projects only and build from there.
2. For SCA Java, as Ant proposed, the samples dealing with extensions
would move to their appropriate extension projects. Samples that used
multiple extensions (e.g. BigBank with Celtix and Axis) would stay
under samples/sca
3. API, SPI, core, hostutil, host-api would be built independently
under a subdirectory of /sca
4. Runtime host projects would be build independently under a
subdirectory of /sca
5. Extensions would move into into a subdirectory of /sca (they could
still be organized according to type) and be built individually
against a particular version of the core "jars". This would mean that
extensions are not built together and are not built with the core.
This would shield the entire build process from breaking when an
extension breaks (e.g. Axis and Axiom not being in sync). It would
also mean changes to the core could be vetted and not impact work
being done on extensions.
Thoughts?
Jim
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