On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 12:47 AM, Sameera Jayasoma <same...@wso2.com> wrote:
> Hi Azeez,
>
> Yeah, this is a major design decision of the new Carbon feature plugin. We
> had few design meetings for this plugin, there we finalized the
> configuration based on some of the following points.
>
> 1) Adopted a Maven dependency-like configuration for features and bundles
> instead of the strings and colon(:) configuration. I believe having a
> proper/valid XML structure is much better than the previous configuration.
> Because,
>
> - It's clean.
> - Configuration can be validated with a schema.
> - You get the same maven experience.
>
> e.g.
>
>
> *<bundleDef>javax.ws.rs:javax.ws.rs-api</bundleDef>*
>
> vs
>
> *<bundle>*
> * <symbolicName>javax.ws.rs-api</symbolicName>*
> * <version>${rs-api.version}</version>*
> *</bundle>*
>
>
> 2) Refactored maven goals we had in the previous plugin and came up with
> easy to understand, self-explanatory set of Maven goal names.
>
> - *generate*
> - maven goal for generate carbon features (formerly known as
> p2-feature-gen)
>
>
> -
> *generate-repo *
> - maven goal for generate repositories (formerly known as
> p2-repo-gen)
>
>
> - *install*
> - maven goal for install features into a product (formerly known as
> p2-profile-gen)
>
>
> - *uninstall*
> - maven goal for uninstalling features
> -
> *generate-profile *
> - maven goal for generate profiles (formerly known as
> materialize-product)
>
>
> - *publish-product*
> - maven goal for publishing a product
>
> Thanks,
> Sameera.
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 12:06 AM, Afkham Azeez <az...@wso2.com> wrote:
>
>> Yes, merge the PR. On second thoughts, I think the new XML syntax is
>> better than the previous one because it specifically highlights that it is
>> using the bundle symbolic name & not the maven group or artifact ID.
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 12:34 PM, Kasun Indrasiri <ka...@wso2.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Should we go ahead with this change?
>>>
>>> On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 5:01 PM, Afkham Azeez <az...@wso2.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I am seeing a lot of introduction of new tags.
>>>>
>>>> e.g. 1. org.wso2.carbon.p2.category.type:server is now written as
>>>>
>>>> <name>org.wso2.carbon.p2.category.type</name>
>>>> <value>server</value>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 2.
>>>> <bundleDef>javax.ws.rs:javax.ws.rs-api</bundleDef>
>>>>
>>>> is now written as. Also we have the additional burden of specifying the
>>>> version again.
>>>>
>>>> <bundle>
>>>> <symbolicName>javax.ws.rs-api</symbolicName>
>>>> <version>${rs-api.version}</version>
>>>> </bundle>
>>>>
>>>> Why have we made the configuration more verbose? More XML tags is not
>>>> necessarily better.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 3:42 PM, Dinusha Boteju <dinus...@wso2.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>
>>>>> I have updated the pom files in WSO2 MSS and WSO2 GW projects to
>>>>> incorporate carbon-feature-plugin 2.0.0-m1 and sent pull requests to
>>>>> relevant repositories.
>>>>>
>>>>> jira link for MSS : https://wso2.org/jira/browse/WMS-2
>>>>> PR link for MSS : https://github.com/wso2/product-mss/pull/14
>>>>>
>>>>> jira link for GW : https://wso2.org/jira/browse/WGW-1
>>>>> <https://wso2.org/jira/browse/WMS-2>
>>>>> PR link for GW : https://github.com/wso2/product-gw/pull/6
>>>>>
>>>>> Best regards,
>>>>> --
>>>>> *Dinusha Boteju*
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>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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>>
>>
>>
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>
>
>
> --
> Sameera Jayasoma,
> Software Architect,
>
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