Hi all,
also cross-replying ... I know my mail client is going to hate me for it ;-)
Well PLC4X would not only provide Sinks, but also Sources ... and I agree that
having the code in Edgent makes far more sense. In general I think almost all
integration modules make sense to be moved to the projects they integrate into.
As I mentioned in that chat you are referring to, the reason for most
integrations being in our repo is simply that this way we were able to write,
commit and release code, as we are usually not committers in most of the
projects we're writing integrations for.
From a maintenance perspective this also has big benefits as - at least
speaking for myself - I'm usually not that deeply involved in the project
I integrate and having the integrations on the other side could ensure
maintenance by people that actually know what they're doing ;-)
I would suggest we contact the incubating projects we currently integrate into
(currently only Edgent) now ... for others (outside of the ASF and TLPs), I
would suggest we wait until PLC4X is a TLP and then contact them (Camel,
Calcite, Kafka, ...)
But I'd like to express my big +1 to this proposal (Being a member of both
projects PPMCs)
Chris
Am 06.02.19, 10:37 schrieb "Julian Feinauer" <j.feina...@pragmaticminds.de>:
Hi all,
first, I decided to cross post, as this addresses both projects equally,
PLC4X and Edgent.
Second, this post is mainly about bringing my thoughts and chat with Chris
to the list(s).
As we have the idea to “revive” Apache Edgent as Edge Framework we think
that it would be better in the long run to move the PLC4X integrations to
Apache Edgent.
This means, that we would build a good PLC4X “Source” for Apache Edgent and
then move all integrations as “Sinks” for Apache Edgent.
Then, one could leverage all of Apache Edgents Stream Processing features
on PLC data and even join it with non-PLC Data and send it to futher downstream
systems.
Another goal is to integrate our CRUNCH Framework [1] into Edgent to allow
analysis of these Streams in Edgent directly.
What are your thoughts on that?
Julian
[1] https://github.com/pragmaticminds/crunch
