Re: [stellation-res] Installation stellation

["Mark C. Chu-Carroll" <mcc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday 12 August 2002 09:56 pm, Martin Möbius wrote:
> Hi,
>
> eclipse is downloading the stellation sources from cvs, so I can write a
> bit (btw. the javadocs should not be below org.eclipse.stellation.misc, to
> much for a modem).
>
> I want to install stellation at a win2k workstation, Mark told me in the
> newsgroup that Ringo already has experiences with that, so I would be happy
> to hear from him.
> I tried to follow
> http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/indextech.cgi/~checkout~/org.eclipse.stellat
>i on/plugins/org.eclipse.stellation.misc/doc/manuals/setting-up.html .
> An important step which is easy to miss is to set eclipse where it searches
> for plugins (preferences|Plug-In Development|Target Platform|Not in
> workspace). If you do not do so, the needed libs are not found and you end
> up with many compile errors.

If the docs were unclear about this, drop it into bugzilla as a feature
request against the docs.

> The unittest project has compile errors, a class Constants is not found,
> perhaps forgotten to commit it to cvs?

The unit tests are currently the work of Florin Iucha. I'd suggest putting
in a bug report in bugzilla, and put him in the assignment field. He's 
"florin@xxxxxxxxx".

> And I finally found the place where the db-repository is created, seems
> that Ringo had to override the whole createRepository(..) method to work
> with oracle.

That's not ideal; we're still working on parameterizing the database access.
We set up a basic design that would be capable of supporting many
databases, and we're still figuring out all the places where databases
differ, so that we can capture the differences in simple parameterization.

Ringo's code is very preliminary. He was the first person outside the
IBM group to try to add support for a new DB. He started by doing the
easiest thing to get Oracle working. I'm working on adding support
for some more databases, and I'll be looking at the parameterization,
and I'll probably go into the Oracle code and adapt it to call the
code in DBAccessPoint where it matches.

> I noticed that all fields are at the end of a class, imo unusual, is this
> the code style or the result from using svc?

It's our coding style. I started writing the system that way, because I
find it easier to find things when the fields are separate from the methods,
and I also think it's good to be able to easily see how much data is 
stored in an object.


>
> martin
>
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