On Jan 2, 2008 1:23 PM, ant elder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jan 2, 2008 12:00 PM, Simon Laws <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Jan 2, 2008 10:53 AM, Mike Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > > > Folks, > > > > > > Some comments.... > > > > > > Yours, Mike. > > > > > > ant elder wrote: > > > > On Jan 2, 2008 8:58 AM, Simon Laws <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > > > > >> For http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TUSCANY-1608 I've put in a > > > >> change, > > > >> based on the ant generator plugin, to bring some automation to the > > > process > > > >> of building the ant files for the samples and demos. For any sample > > or > > > >> demo > > > >> that requires explicit dependencies, e.g. the webapp samples, I've > > > >> replaced > > > >> the static ant file with and automatically generated one. In the > case > > > that > > > >> some hand crafted ant script is needed, for example, to generate > > SDOs, > > > >> then > > > >> I have the ant generator just build build-dependency.xml which has > > the > > > >> dependencies listed and which can then be included in the manually > > > >> generated > > > >> build.xml script. > > > >> > > > >> I haven't applied this change to all of the samples but it could be > > > done. > > > >> If > > > >> we did have all of the dependencies explicitly described for all of > > the > > > >> samples can we get rid of the "all" and "manifest" jars? > > > >> > > > >> Simon > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I think its better if applications don't have to know or care about > > > Tuscany > > > > internals, that includes knowing all the different Tuscany module > > names > > > and > > > > all the dependencies they use. > > > > > > +1 - applications should ideally have ZERO dependence on Tuscany > > > internals. They should be deployed to an "SCA capable runtime" > without > > > having to know anything about that runtime. > > > > > > > We haven't got this right yet so each time we > > > > release our sample Ant builds break as the build.xml files get out > of > > > date - > > > > this will be happening for any Ant builds our users have as well. > The > > > "all" > > > > jar is an attempt to fix this, its a better way IMHO than having > > > > applications specify every Tuscany module but theres a bit of work > > still > > > to > > > > do to make it work better for webapps. We've also talked before > about > > > > changing all the samples to be simple sca contributions that don't > > need > > > any > > > > mention of the Tuscany internals, this is something I think we > really > > > need > > > > to do. Both of those things seem better to me than messing about > > trying > > > to > > > > generate build scripts. > > > > > > I agree with this sentiment. We should be building: > > > > > > a) runtimes of various kinds (SCA standalone, embedded within Tomcat, > > etc) > > > > > > b) applications, containing only the code and other artifacts required > > > for the application itself > > > > > > and then have some regular means of deploying the applications to > > > appropriate runtimes - some applications could be deployed to "almost > > > any" SCA runtime while others need specific runtime capabilities such > as > > > a Web server and Servlet support. > > > > > > > > > > > ...ant > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > We are describing configuration scenarios in this thread that are not > > currently well covered in the samples that ship with Tuscany. Take the > > following steps as an example, > > > > 1 - choose a runtime > > 2 - configure the runtime > > 3 - start the runtime > > 4 - assemble application(s) > > 5 - contribute the application(s) > > 6 - make top level contributed composites available > > > > 90% of our samples currently assume that > > > > 1-3 means start a standalone runtime with all features enabled by using > > the > > "all" jar > > 4-6 means add a single contribution with a single composite > > > > The ant scripts we have target step 2 and have no impact on 4,5,6. The > ant > > scripts do not imply that the "applications have to know or care about > > Tuscany internals". I think you are confusing the act of starting the > > runtime with that of contributing the application. It just so happens > that > > in our samples these steps all happen in close proximity, I.e. our > samples > > generally include a runtime and the application itself. In the > particular > > case of webapps the ant scripts configure the runtime (the war in this > > case) > > so that it contains just enough to run and no more in order to reduce > the > > size of the war. > > > > Maybe if we had a way to say "Tuscany standalone with all extensions" or > "Tuscany Tomcat with BPEL, WS and JavaScript" then ok but if the > application > build process has to mention tuscany-assembly, tuscany-core, > tuscany-definitions, tuscany-databinding and all the other dozens of > required jars then that does seems like "knowing and caring about Tuscany > internals" to me. > This is the case as at some point someone decided to package our samples along with the runtime that will run them. So to configure the runtime you need to configure the sample build. There is no hardwired relationship though between the runtime build and the application build.
The case where we do need to build the two together is when we package the runtime within the WAR that holds the application. There have been numerous posts during previous releases about reducing the size of these wars which I believe is why the WAR builds were different from the standalone runtime builds. We could take the view that we always package everything and make the build simpler.But I prefer what you are suggesting of being able to describe required features rather than the explicit jars that implement a feature. > > > > > > Having said this I still agree that having the samples be just > > applications > > that are then contributed to a runnning runtime of your choice is a more > > well rounded target to aim for. I note that there a series of modules > > under > > construction. > > > > tuscany-runtime > > tuscany-runtime-tomcat > > tuscany-runtime-war > > > > which could be extended to include tuscany-runtime-standalone, > > tuscany-runtime-jms or whatever else is required. > > > > We still need a mechanism for configuring these runtimes. In particular > we > > have binding, databinding and implementation extensions that can be > > included/excluded. Also some of these extensions may provided > alternative > > implementations that must be selected explicitly. It seems that steps 1, > 2 > > and 3 resolve to > > > > 1 - choose hosting approach > > 2 - choose extensions > > 3 - build useable runtime > > > > It may be that the "all" jar can satisfy many of the cases now as we > don't > > currently have any cases of alternative extension implementations. > However > > I > > would be nervous in the long run because of the lack of step 2. If > nothing > > else we should remove the hosting options from the all jar. > > > > I think the "all" jar worked ok as a point in time thing to make the > releases more usable after all the problems with M2 but now Tuscany is > getting more complex it might be coming to the end of its useful life. > > Agree about removing the hosting options from it, they seem like they > should > be separate things, maybe what we need is to separate out all the runtime > environment stuff from the all the other code so there's a jar for each > environment and a jar with all the common stuff and you'd use them > together, > eg: > > tuscany-runtime-standalone.jar and tuscany-sca.jar > or > tuscany-runtime-tomcat.jar and tuscany-sca.jar > or > tuscany-runtime-geronimo.jar and tuscany-sca.jar > > And the various runtime jars would include the impls for the specific > environment so tuscany-runtime-geronimo.jar would include the Geronimo > specific impls of things like the Tuscany ServletHost and JMS host etc. Yes. this is the kind of thing I was thinking. Maybe we ship tuscany-sca.jarwith everything in it and provide a build script that creates it based on a selection of feature names if you want/need to cut is down for whatever reason. > > > > > > > Can we enumerate the concrete scenarios we want to satisfy to help us. > > I've > > seen the following so far. SCA applications running with > > > > A - a standalone runtime > > B - a war runtime > > C - Tomcat with no Tuscany code in the war but with Tuscany embedded in > > Tomcat > > D - Geronimo with no Tuscany code in the war but with Tuscany embedded > in > > Geronimo > > E - a standalone runtime and a JMS provider > > > > Also the distributed store tutorial brings up the case where the SCA > > application uses SCA components to describe a service running outside > the > > SCA runtime, i.e. the host has no Tuscany runtime but you can wire to > it's > > services. > > > > What else do we need to cover? > > > > Simon > > > Those A to D sound like a good start to me, not sure about E, why is JMS > different than say RMI - does A include the RMI host? Maybe this is just my misunderstanding of what the JMS host does. I thought it was ultimately going to be an optional extra in the case that you needed to support the JMS binding with an auto started JMS broker (as the samples do currently) as opposed to some existing broker. From you question it sounds like you are expecting it to be around all the time in which as it would be the same as A > > > ...ant >
