Is there an overview of how the existing TGP works, preferably
comprehensible from a geronimo-centric viewpoint?
On Oct 3, 2008, at 2:57 AM, ant elder wrote:
I'd like to start spending more time actively working on the Tuscany
Geronimo integration and having that more support the SCA JEE
specification (see: [1]). Here is a rough outline of what i'd like
to do:
The goal of this would be to use Geronimo and Tuscany to create an
SCA-enabled Java EE runtime, which from the SCA JEE specification
means "a Java EE runtime that supports deployment and execution of
SCA-enhanced Java EE applications as well as SCA-enhanced Java EE
modules."
We already have a start of that with the old Tuscany Geronimo Plugin
[2] and there's another wiki page thats started to be used to
capture some requirements at [3]. Currently the old TGP has got out
of date and doesn't work with any current releases of Geronimo or
Tuscany so the first thing to do is to get a basic plugin going
again and then gradually add functionality to it so it does things
like:
- adds all Tuscany jars and their dependencys into Geronimo
If you build this stuff as a geronimo plugin using the geronimo maven2
car-maven-plugin the maven dependencies will turn into geronimo plugin
dependencies and get installed automatically when you install the TGP
into a geronimo server. I don't think this was really working when
the original TGP was written.
- supports existing Tuscany webapps without needing to include any
Tuscany jars or dependencys in the lib directory
Keep in mind I know nothing about tuscany :-)
You may find it valuable to set up a "tuscany classloader" geronimo
plugin that has all the tuscany jars in it, and has appropriate
parents for stuff it needs like jee specs or jaxb. Then any app can
use this as a parent classloader and get all the tuscany stuff at
once, and all apps will be using tuscany classes from the same
classloader.
- supports simple jar contributions into a Tuscany standalone node
- supports Tuscany using Geronimo infrastructure for things such as
HTTP and JMS hosts
- supports for SCA enabled JEE application local assembly
- supports SCA wiring across JEE applications and modules
These sound cool, wish I knew what they meant :-)
thanks
david jencks
Thats a high level and incomplete list, it is in a rough order of
when things get done and some of the items may not be needed in the
log term but are just stepping stones to the later items. There's
been lots of off list discussion about this so i'd like to try to
move that all to the mailing lists from now so everyone can
participate and can see whats going on. I'd like to try to break the
work down into several milestones with actual releases that we can
ask users in both Tuscany and Geronimo to try out as we go along to
get feedback and also to try to promote some interest around SCA in
JEE.
...ant
[1] http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/29127/sca-
jee-1[1].1-spec-wd03.doc
[2] http://cwiki.apache.org/TUSCANYWIKI/tuscany-geronimo-integration.html
[3] http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/TUSCANYWIKI/Java+EE+Integration
