[geclipse-dev] AWS Refactorings

[Moritz Post <mpost@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hallo gEclipse

Over the last two weeks we did some major refactorings regarding the AWS 
implementation. What once was a monolithic implementation is now a 
flourishing basar of possibilites (metaphorically speaken). What we 
actually did was to take the static eu.geclipse.aws.ec2 implementation 
and extracted the generic aws portions (Vo concept, access credentials 
etc) and moved them into a base plugin eu.geclipse.aws. This foundation 
can now be extended upon to implement existing AWS services like EC2, 
S3, DevPay etc. Thanks to Mathias for making some of the implementation 
details possible.

What does that mean for you? The best approach is to remove the existing 
projects eu.geclipse.aws.ec2* plugins from your workspace and check out 
the new implementation:

- eu.geclipse.aws
- eu.geclipse.aws.ui
- eu.geclipse.aws.test
- eu.geclipse.aws.ec2
- eu.geclipse.aws.ec2.ui
- eu.geclipse.aws.ec2.test

Make sure that you have removed the old eu.geclipse.aws plugins (hosted 
in svn) which contain the s3 implementation. The s3 have been renamed to 
eu.geclipse.aws.s3 (as pointed out in last weeks mails). Migration of 
the s3 implementation to the new architecture has not started yet but is 
high on our list.

Although the aws/ec2 implementation has been tested thoroughly (both 
unit test wise and manually) such a major rework needs evaluation. You 
can get a quick snapshot here: 
http://iwr-geclipse.fzk.de:8443/luntbuild/app.do;jsessionid=1quipc0k24eov?service=direct/1/Home/builds.buildViewerComponent.$DirectLink$3&sp=S%2Fartifacts%2FEPP-packages

The code will also be part of the nightly builds.

Any feedback you can provide will be highly appreciated.

regards
Moritz