Matthias et al,
I haven't looked over the cartridge changes yet. I am looking forward to
seeing it all working and I will try to build it later today.
I have a comment regarding process which I wish I had thought of earlier.
In the future we should consider creating a CVS tag for every release that
we provide for download. We should also consider making CVS tags before
any significant system wide change to the code base. Given that we are
still at an alpha stage it is probably no big deal right now.
The other thing that occurs to me at this point in time is that we need
to be extremely vigilant about making sure that the product provides an
'excellent out of the box' experience. It must be easy to install, use,
and upgrade. Our measure should be 'a few minutes to productivity' after
the first download.
>-- Original Message --
>From: "Matthias Bohlen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: [Andromda-devel] Cartridges: Mission almost completed
>Date: Sat, 5 Apr 2003 18:48:35 +0200
>
>
>Hi, everyone,
>
>after this long battle, here is the latest info what I have done so far:
>
>0) What is a cartridge, now? A jar file with metainformation, templates
>and java code in it. A cartridge must be put on the CLASSPATH and is
>autodetected by the AndroMDA core. I have adjusted
>src/sample/car-rental-system build.properties.sample so that you can see
>how it should be configured.
>
>1) What is an outlet?
>Each cartridge has so-called "outlets" now. An outlet is a logical
>symbolic alias name for a physical directory. See the build.xml file of
>the car-rental-system sample. The andromda call now looks like this:
> <andromda basedir="build/model/unzipped"
> includes="CarRentalSystem15.xmi"
> lastModifiedCheck="false"
> typeMappings="${andromda.home}/src/xml/TypeMapping.xml"
> >
> <userProperty name="foreignKeySuffix" value="_FK" />
> <userProperty name="testProperty" value="The quick brown fox" />
>
> <outlet cartridge="ejb" outlet="beans"
>dir="${andromda.ejb.bean.dir}" />
> <outlet cartridge="ejb" outlet="impls"
>dir="${andromda.ejb.impl.dir}" />
>
> <outlet cartridge="struts" outlet="forms"
>dir="${andromda.web.form.dir}" />
> <outlet cartridge="struts" outlet="actions"
>dir="${andromda.web.action.dir}" />
> <outlet cartridge="struts" outlet="pages"
>dir="${andromda.web.page.dir}" />
> <outlet cartridge="struts" outlet="config"
>dir="${src.webconfig.dir}/generated" />
>
> </andromda>
>
>The outlets of each cartridge are associated with physical directories.
>This takes place at generator runtime. I had to invent the outlets
>because the cartridges are separate modules now that do not know about
>their environment details.
>
>2) New CVS repository structure
>Our CVS has now the following structure:
>/cvsroot/andromda/andromda - the core and the samples.
>/cvsroot/andromda/cartridges - all the cartridges (currently ejb and
>struts).
>
>3) New build system
>Each cartridge has its own build.xml and its own src, lib, etc.
>directories. Currently, the EJB cartridge builds a jar file, the struts
>cartridge builds a ZIP file with internal structure. This has to be
>unified so that each cartridge builds a ZIP, even the EJB cartridge.
>
>4) No integrated build yet
>The core and each cartridge have to be built separately. It would be
>very kind if somebody (Stefan???) could massage this a little and invent
>a unified build.xml at the top level of the directory structure that
>calls the other build.xml files one by one and builds a unified
>distribution at the end.
>
>5) Sample adapted.
>I have adapted the car-rental-system sample so that it uses the new
>cartridge architecture. I have not yet changed the UML model, the
>stereotypes and the tagged values. This would have broken everything and
>would have taken me too long to clean up. Moreover, I did not adapt the
>other samples and the project wizard.
>
>OK, the gunpowder smoke is settling now. The foundation has been made.
>Next steps:
>
>* Invention of new, cartridge-independent stereotypes
>* Changes in the UML model so that the sample can be run with EJB, JDO
>or Hibernate.
>* New cartridges. (Ming Fai?)
>
>What do you think?
>
>Cheers everyone...
>Matthias
>
>---
>
>Matthias Bohlen
>"Consulting that helps project teams to succeed..."
>http://www.mbohlen.de/
>
>
>
>
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