+1.

Raymond

----- Original Message ----- From: "Jean-Sebastien Delfino" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2007 3:45 AM
Subject: SCA source tree and build structure


Hi all,

We've discussed the need for a working top-down build in a number of threads now:
http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg14658.html
http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg15892.html
http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg16062.html
http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg16085.html

We're also starting to discuss the contents of our next release, so it's probably about time to do something concrete to fix that build :) Here's a pretty basic proposal for how to fix it.

First simplify our trunk structure:
java/
 pom/parent/pom.xml

 sca/
   pom.xml
   modules/
     pom.xml
     assembly
     binding-axis2
     contribution
     core
     databinding
     discovery-jms
     federation
     http-jetty
     idl-java
     impl-java
     ...
The "next release" discussion will help us determine the list of modules.

   samples/
     build.xml <-- I'd like to build the samples with Ant as well as Maven
     pom.xml
     calculator
     supplychain
     bigbank
     helloworld
     ...
     Here also, the release discussion will help determine the list.

   itest
     pom.xml
     bindings
     exceptions
     spec
     ...
     Here I suggest to copy the tests from the integration branch.

Maven technicalities:
- sca/pom.xml's parent will be pom/parent/pom.xml
- Other poms will use the pom from the parent folder as parent pom
- Group ids: org.apache.tuscany.sca, org.apache.tuscany.sca.samples, org.apache.tuscan.sca.itest - Version of our modules will be specified once in java/sca/pom.xml, child poms don't need specify a version as they get it from their parent

Naming conventions:
- Use all lowercases and dashes in folder names (like in the jar names)
- Maven artifact id = tuscany-<folder name>

Building the tree:
Simple... cd java/sca, then mvn. It should work even if you start with an empty Maven local repository, and it should always work :) Build breaks should be avoided or get fixed quickly, it's the least we can do to be nice to our community of developers and users to avoid breaking them all the time.

Handling modules not part of the next release:
If people want to work on some new modules that won't be part of the next release and not included in the top-down build, that's fine, we can just avoid listing these modules in java/sca/modules/pom.xml. So, they can be there in the same source tree but they won't break the release top-down build, and they won't have to be building at all times.

So, to make this proposal concrete, I'm planning to put my build guy hat on and start putting that build structure together on Tuesday. I won't break any of the existing modules as the new folder names won't conflict with the existing folders. Also I'll copy the modules to the new folders instead of moving them.

I would like to have this structure running for a few days, get people's input, feedback or help to make it work :) and adjust it step by step to what people in our community want. If it works well, then great, we'll have a working build again and a happy community :) If people want to try something else, we can try it too. Finally, we can revisit the tree structure, the build etc. after the next release as well.

Thoughts?

--
Jean-Sebastien


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