Ian - please do add the autosync use case to the wiki page I created.

On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 9:47 PM, Ian Boston <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
> +1 to that. After working on sling for many years doing a mixture of bundle
> and UI work, mainly using the FileSystemResolver bundle, I realise now if
> VLT had been available with sync mode (ie auto syncing the repo and the
> file system), we (the team I was working with at the time) would have made
> much more rapid progress. UI dev work needs file-save-refresh. The in
> browser editing UIs deliver this, as does VLT in sync mode, but
> unfortunately native eclipse based tooling is just too slow (on my machine,
> might be my machine). Using VLT since I joined Adobe, has been a joy, and I
> am very glad to know its being donated to the ASF.
>
> Had we had VLT then, we would have developed in a very different way, and
> might not have had half the problems we had with tooling and team
> structure.
> Ian
>
>
> On 31 May 2013 10:16, Justin Edelson <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> > I would strongly suggest that this effort be based on VLT. As mentioned
> on
> > the wiki page, we're in the process of moving that to ASF and I think
> once
> > the code is available, it will be clear that it provides a good low-level
> > interface for this type of UI.
> >
> > While it is true that VLT currently only works with DavEX servers, I
> > suspect it would not be hard to isolate the "Ex" bits and have a "WebDAV"
> > only driver which could be used on non-JCR applications for basic file
> > operations.
> >
> > My concern is that we end up building one more abstraction which is going
> > to sit on top of all the other abstractions (VLT, Dav(Ex), JCR, MK,
> etc.).
> >
> > I know VLT has some baggage, but I'd just ask that people keep an open
> > mind.
> >
> > Separately, I'm going to start a child page of this wiki page to gather
> use
> > cases. There are some functional areas listed on the main page, but I
> think
> > we should try to capture individual use cases.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Justin
> >
> >
> > On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 10:48 AM, Robert Munteanu <[email protected]
> > >wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Following Antonio's kick-start of the Sling developer tooling [1] I've
> > > gathered some thoughts about the initial goals and implementation of
> our
> > > Sling IDE tooling.
> > >
> > > The document is at [2] so please have a look and let me know what your
> > > thoughts are. I intend to take a pass at the code next week and align
> it
> > > to the proposed structure, as a foundation for feature work.
> > >
> > > Robert
> > >
> > > [1]: https://cwiki.apache.org/SLING/slingclipse.html
> > > [2]:
> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/SLING/Sling+IDE+tooling
> > >
> > >
> >
>

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