[stellation-res] Progress on Windows port

["Jonathan Gossage" <jgossage@xxxxxxxx>]

I have been working on getting Stellation to work properly under Windows. I
have completed the following tasks.

1. I have implemented Windows versions of the launchers svc.sh and server.sh
called svc.bat and server.bat respectively

2. I have modified the Ant build.xml file to support Windows installation
and to remove any environment specific paths from the build.xml file. The
Windows specific changes include separating out Unix and Windows targets for
install-client,  install-server, and the internal target script. These
targets now behave in a platform specific manner when preparing and
installing the scripts used as launchers. The platform specific behaviour is
invoked automatically depending on the platform Ant is running on.

In addition I have removed all environment specific specifications and
placed them into the Ant pre-processor batch file. On Unix this is
"~/.antrc". On Windows this is %HOME%\antrc_pre.bat. I have prepared samples
of these files for both platforms that define the environment sensitive
information that was previously hard coded in the build.xml file.

3. I have developed a Windows batch file based analogue to the test scripts
currently stored in org.eclipse.stellation.misc/tests/scm/misc and I have
implemented the first two tests. During this process I discovered problems
in the repository text merge support and I have created a bug report
Bugzilla 25093 covering this problem. I also created a Junit test case that
exhibits the problem and attached the relevant files to the bug report.
Could someone please run this under Linux to determine whether this is a
Windows only phenomem or not?

4. I noticed in a recent post that there is a plan to convert all the script
based merge tests to Junit based tests. If this is the case, is there any
benefit in proceeding with the conversion of the Unix based scripts to
Windows based scripts.

If you want to do this conversion to Junit and have not started it yet, I
could do it for you because I need to be able to run these tests, and
others,to be able to confirm the correctness of Stellation on Windows.