Re: [stellation-res] Project Planning

["Jonathan Gossage" <jonathan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>
> >I want to finish studying the DeltaV and WVCM specs, so that I have a
more
> >accurate idea of how difficult the different tasks are. Jim is also on
> >vacation
> >taking his daughter to start college, and won't be back until wednesday.
>
> I was back Wednesday as expected, but swamped (so, what else is new?)
>
>
> >The Eclipse client integration should really be Jim's baby.  Jim is
primarily
> >a UI guy, and most of his work has been on Eclipse integration
> >components.
>
> I will be responsible for the GUI client and for other Eclipse-related
> work and assistance as needed.  I'm continuing to study the WVCM API,
> as well as the WVCM-related mail in the Eclipse archives.  Here
> are a few interesting bits:
>
>
> The posted Team (VCM) R3 milestones include the following:
> "Team API
> * Investigate JSR 147 [WVCM] and propose how it can be integrated into
> Eclipse."
>
> This was originally part of milestone M3 (due for release today, btw),but
> was deferred to M4 (due for completion on XXX).
> This work item is associated with Bugzilla #37705:
>
> "[plan item] Improve team API.
> Since Eclipse 2.0, each team repository provider adds its own specialized
> commands to the Eclipse UI. There are no common APIs for a plug-in tool to
> programmatically interact with different team providers. JSR-147 is in the
> process of developing common API for creating and manipulating sets of
> version-controlled files and web resources, based on the DeltaV extension
to
> WebDAV. Eclipse should support this experimental API. [Platform Team]"
>
> Jean-Michel Lemieux was originally tasked with this item in the M3 plan;
> no taskings are shown for the M4 plan.
> Clearly, we should contact Jean-Michel (and probably Tim Ellison as well?)
> and discuss coordination.  Mark, do you want to do that?

Is it possible that the Eclipse folks might consider letting us do this item
as part of an implementation
of WVCM and then contribute it back into Eclipse? Based on my previous
experience in doing
protocol related work, it is much easier to develop when you can control
both ends at the same time.

>
> BTW, the current FTP/WebDAV code (binary and source) is available on the
> downloads page for Eclipse R3 M2 (and other builds).  There is (or at
least
> was)
> apparently some sample code as well:
>
> [Tim Ellison, Jan 25, 2002]:
> "Take a look at the project 'org.eclipse.team.examples.core' and the
package
> in there called 'org.eclipse.team.examples.core.webdav'. That shows an
> example of using the WebDAV client with authentication. "
>
> ----------------------
>
> I haven't checked yet to see if the example code is up to date with R3 M2.
>
I had a good look at the Eclipse WebDAV code (but not the sample) and it
looks to be a reasonably complete implementation
of the client side end of the WebDAV protocol, including the DeltaV
extensions.

Regards

Jonathan