[kepler-dev] SVNKit

[ben leinfelder]

Hi Jing,
I think it would be better to use a standard Kepler installer (soon to be 2.2?) on the server and package the other services (axis and scheduler war files) separately. Then we would have a standard installation of Kepler deployed on the remote execution server without worrying about maintaining releases for both a "client" and "server" version of Kepler. Can you just bundle the axis2/webservice war and the scheduler war into an archive that is easily deployed and configured on the server? I believe the target audience for the scheduling system is small and mostly comprised of system administrators who should be able to unpack the bundle.
I don't think we should be performing SVN checkouts within code for this particular packaging task.
Thanks,
-ben

On Jul 20, 2011, at 3:00 PM, jing wrote:

> Hi, devs:
> 
> I am working on creating a kepler server version installer. It will include kepler, workflow run engine and workflow scheduler. 
> 
> Building the installer will involve the svn command, e.g. checking out workflow scheduler and run engine components from svn repositories. To my understanding, the jobs of kepler build system are done by java classes, not in the build.xml. So we need a java library to handle the svn actions. The library will provide a SVN API for the java class which builds the installer.
> 
> I looked a around and found a pure java toolkit - SVNKit. It has dual licensing - TMate Open Source License and Commercial License. The TMate Open Source License permits you to use SVNKit at no charge under the condition that if you use the software in an application you redistribute, the complete source code for your application must be available and freely redistributable under reasonable conditions. It is similar to GPL license.  The details can be seen at :
> 
> http://svnkit.com/license.html
> 
> Can we add the svnkit jar files into kepler/build-area/lib? If we can't, does anybody have any other recommendation?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Jing
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