On Wed, 2010-09-15 at 14:09 +0200, Andersen Max wrote: > >> Let us know what you think and as always we are very open for for > >> feedback/contributions. > > > > Do you bundle the deltacloud server within Eclipse ? Since there aren't > > any public instances (that I know of), users will have to run their own. > > > > For now we assume users connect to an external deltacloud running locally or > remotely. > > from what I understand deltacloud today requires native components thus I > didn't > even consider bundling it because of the many environments we would have to > test/verify it in.
Yes, when you run it under thin, there's native code involved; the Deltacloud code itself is pure Ruby. > If deltacloud could run in a pure JRuby setup it might be worth > considering...but for > now its external. Benjamin Browning actually got it to work with TorqueBox IIRC. > Another idea would be if something like jcloud would provide a deltacloud api > implementation; > that would probably fit better/easier into a portable java setup. WDYT? That won't address the issue of needing a server somewhere - probably a good idea though as a general-purpose client. > > > > And what would you like to see added to the API to make your life easier > > and the Eclipse integration more powerful ? What are you using as the > > client library in Java, or are you doing straightup REST in your code ? > > I believe Jeff took the existing Java client library and "mutated" it > to be compatible with the recent changes. Cool .. have you sent them upstream ? I assume you're talking about mtaylor's Java library (http://github.com/mtaylor/deltacloud-tools/tree/master) > I know there are some issues with that library in context of > osgi/eclipse environments so we might > have some changes for that going forward. Sounds good. Would these issues also exist for jclouds ? David
