mcconnell 2002/12/02 22:58:17
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Just a note about status.
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The avalon-sandbox/assembly package is a evolving in resoponse to discusions and
ideas about profiles based containers thats been going on within the avalon-dev list
recently. Much of the content here has been ripped out of the Avalon Excalibur Merlin
packaged and refactored to be more more cleanly compoent based. The current result is
a assembly/lifestyle/lifecycle management engine without any magic. The
avalon-sandbox/merlin package is moving towards refactoring to leverage the assembly
engine in the delivery of a dynamically deployed containers - you get exactly what you
want for your containement problem - nothing more - nothing less.
There is still a lot of stuff to be done:
* appliance manager is statically referncing the DefaultAppliance class - the
objective it to have the assembly engine dynamically assembly the asembly
implemetation class based on a comppontnt type addributute - but thins gets into some
heavy nested assembly semantics
* getting subsystem configuration in place - everythig currently works without
configuration which is noce for the dyncamic deployment scanarios, but getting full
propergation of custom configuration will be a big plus in moving forward on the
notriuon of profle diren containment
To see the API in action:
$ ant test
And you will see a bunch of test cases assemblying components with dependecies and
all that soort of stuff. While component can have dynamic dependecies on the assembly
system (i.e. a componet under asembly can may have a depedency which will be resolved
by the assembly engine by calling the assembly engine to build the dependency), there
is still work to be done on enabling the assembly engine to call itself to enable it
to extend itself during its own assembly of itself.
All contributions are really welcome!
Cheers, Steve.
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