Some talking points for the call. Apologies if I didn’t capture some of the suggestions, I’m sure this is way more than we’ll have time to cover today.
1) Bridge between org.eclipse.wst.common.project.facet.core.runtime.IRuntime and org.eclipse.wst.server.core.IRuntime
* implementing a runtime requires using two different api / extension points.
* interacting with the runtime, one has to move across the boundary between the server tools and the j2ee tools / facets.
* Poor performance. Since the bridge does not know when the runtimes change, it is forced to do a lot of unnecessary work to make sure it doesn't get out of sync.
* Very difficult to take advantage of some of the extensibility offered by the faceted project runtimes. For instance, in order to have runtimes with more than two runtime components, one has to implement a custom runtime bridge.
* Unable to add "New" button (to create a new runtime) to the facet selection panel since the project facets framework has no idea how runtimes are created and they maybe coming from multiple sources (multiple bridges).
1a) https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=111545 - relationship server instance configuration to the server.core and facet runtime representations.
2) Server Adapter API (publish)
* Have found the module array difficult to work with. Publish Tasks and Module Publishers generally need to operate on, or within the context of, each EAR, Standalone WAR, Standalone EJB module heirarchy. (See Bug 123676.)
* Need to be able to abort the publishing of an individual EAR, Stndalone WAR, or Stndalone EJB, while allowing other deployable units to continue to process/publish.
* User interaction during publish process?
3) Typing and filtering of (component) resources used during publish
* Mechanism for publish tasks/publish process delegate to facet implementation classes?
4) File delta perf/scalability
Would like to invite interested parties to participate in a WTP server tools architecture call on Monday.
This is an opportunity to discuss any outstanding architecture issues and to design solutions -- perhaps temporarily setting aside annoying practicalities like schedule and api changes :-)
I’ll try to send out an agenda doc Monday morning with some topics. The primary one for us is the facet runtime bridge. But please feel free to send me any other items you’d like to discuss.
Time: Monday, 2/27 11 AM PST / 2 PM EST
Toll free: 866-214-3176
Passcode: 8870689
Thanks, Ted
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