Re: AW: [geclipse-dev] PBS implementation

[Markus Knauer <mknauer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 12 June 2008, Ariel Garcia wrote:
> Hi Thomas,
>
> > We wanted to introduce an extension point for
> > interactive connections which could then be used by plugins like the
> > remote debugging/compiling, the batch editor, the terminal, gvid, etc.
> > Two implementations for this extension point would be SSH and glogin.
> > This would allow all plugins that use this extension point to build
> > interactive connections may be provided by a middleware/some other
> > plugin.
>
> let's say it this way:
>     +1 for this option
> but
>     +10 for first investigating if we could somehow profit from some of the
> functionality that the TM project (target management,
> http://www.eclipse.org/dsdp/tm/) offers, like the RSE (remote system
> explorer). From "outside" it looks like they have exactly that! ie, a
> layer allowing file/shell/process access to remote systems via different
> implementations (ssh, telnet, dstore, ftp,...) They also have a terminal.
> It would be great if we could base on/share/reuse that code!
> Could you take a look at it, or did you already investigated it and
> discarded that option?
>
> http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/eclipse/dsdp/tm/presentations/
>TM_Short_ECon08.pdf
>
> Greets, Ariel

Very good timing... ;-)

I talked with Moritz several times about this (RSE, dstore, TM, DSDP), and now 
(at this very moment) he is doing some first investigations, if and how we 
can profit from integrating this in our planned AWS integration.

So *if* this turns out to be a solution, then we should work on a joint 
integration.

Markus