On 5/3/05, Jeffrey Liu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Steve, > > Configure in this case means the user goes to the Eclipse perference page, > choose the version of Tomcat that was downloaded, and point Eclipse to the > location where it was unzipped. Nothing major, but not obvious to novice > users. Although I'm not similar with what autonomic-system-management is, I > don't think this is anything near that.
Well, that's all right then. I was worried you were thinking of configuring tomcat to find a spare port, open a hole in the firewall, etc etc. But if you arent doing that, then this proposal is purely for the Eclipse IDE itself? That's a bit, well, limited. We currently have three ways of distributing stuff -on the web, for download -as rpms, including jpackage rpms of java stuff -as maven/maven2 downloads RPMs are interesting because although linux-centric (and redhat centric, to be precise), there are a lot of tools out there than can pump them out to systems in a cluster; you get good management. maven repositories are fun because every JAR is on a URL; you can pass them to a URL classloader as is if you want. The .pom also declares dependencies for transitive work; a bit like debian apt-get. We are just starting to roll out Maven2 support, both in Apache and outside it. I am not (yet) convinced we need yet-another-archive-format with another set of distributables, and if it only benefited one IDE, I dont think it is justifiable. It would surely be better if we had -a gui client that could work with the existing Apache repositories -a client build on AWT for broadest cross platform execution. -some way of pushing out packages to multiple systems in a cluster -support per/user, per-system packages -good auditing to determine package set (with JMX integration) That is, a Java successor to all the rpm management tools. Incidentally, one pressing problem with the maven repositories is there is no easy way to fetch Sun stuff. That is, if I want to use Axis with mail.jar and activation,jar, you cant get those from the Apache site for legal reasons. Do you propose any solution to the clickthrough licensing problem? -steve
