Hi All:
The BPEL project here at eclipse has been relatively dormant for a long
period and has experienced some recent rework. The BPEL project has
converted itself into a modulecore project, with a module factory very
similar to the one in jeetools, minus a few of the participants that
jeetools uses for replacing manifest files and such.
We believe strongly that there is enough API to properly publish these
modules in a generic server without significant modification, by simply
zipping up the module core project according to its module assembly
configuration and attaching a proper suffix at the end. We believe this
could easily be added by the Generic Server team (as well as other
server adapters), and we're wondering if anyone sees any roadblocks, any
problems with this, or can offer any roadmap or guidance to this process.
Basically we just want to make sure that people don't see a problem
supporting another module type which doesn't do anything weird or
strange and just follows the servertools API pretty strictly. We'd be
much obliged if someone would give it a whirl. Problem is, they'd need
to modify one of the generic servers to support the module type and
version.
- Rob Stryker
You can check out the bpel plugins over at: dev.eclipse.org
/cvsroot/technology org.eclipse.bpel
PS - I still find this somewhat unusual. Generic Server often casts into
jee-tools specific interfaces and uses jee-tools specific API. If
generic server wanted to support bpel and bpel-tools also had custom
interfaces, generic server publishers would also depend on bpel classes.
Extend this to ESB projects, other SOA-type projects, and custom
interfaces for all, and you end up with a server adapter that must
depend on the entire world in order to be able to publish a new project
type.
This obviously hinders adoption of new project types, if all server
adapters feel it might add compile dependencies on all such new projects
with custom interfaces, and this becomes very problematic.
Either way, the bpel project as of now has no such custom interfaces
that would be needed and so should be a relatively minor fix for server
adapters to support.
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