Hi Mumtaz, Also feel free to post questions to the CDDLM mailing list (you need to join in order to post). Chances are someone from the four teams will reply to you. I have cc-ed the list on this reply. Thanks, Dejan.
-----Original Message----- From: Loughran, Steve Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2006 8:15 AM To: 'Mumtaz Siddiqui'; 'Alex Villazon' Cc: Milojicic, Dejan S (HP Labs) Subject: RE: CDL schema/API
Everything is under SCM; see https://sourceforge.net/projects/deployment for stuff to check out.
-you will need a prerelease of Ant1.7 to build the JARs, grab one from http://people.apache.org/~stevel/dist/ if you don't want to build one yourself
-We also build nightly on apache gump; if your project also has a public CVS or SVN repository, you can get added to the Gump and so catch any changes in CDDLM or any other Java dependency.
Regarding the GLARE language versus CDL, there is some appeal to Glare. Indeed, the Ant dev team is always bemused when people use it as the reference language for workflows; yours is probably the third such version, following on from GridAnt, and Sun's XML Pipeline language (http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/NOTE-xml-pipeline-20020228/). One thing that Ant does model well is the notion of files, paths and directories, though even there its model of resources is weak because the lack of unity across the many groups of things that you can use (hence ant1.7's refactoring to have an abstract ResourceSet as the parent of all groupings).
CDL tries to be more abstract, but personally, file systems are so important to deployment/configuration that its important to have a good way to model them. We end up having components which do nothing but map a platform independent filename into a platform-specific one, setting a lazy attribute to the final, absolute value at deployment time.
Tschuss, -Steve
-----Original Message----- From: Milojicic, Dejan S (HP Labs) Sent: 21 February 2006 14:08 To: Mumtaz Siddiqui; scrumb@ggf.org Cc: Loughran, Steve; Alex Villazon Subject: RE: CDL schema/API
Hi Mumtaz,
Sorry for the confusion, I was suggesting that you talk to Steve Loughran (cc-ed), not Steve Crumb.
Thanks,
Dejan.
-----Original Message----- From: Mumtaz Siddiqui [mailto:mumtaz@dps.uibk.ac.at] Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2006 4:55 AM To: scrumb@ggf.org Cc: dejan@hpl.hp.com; Alex Villazon Subject: CDL schema/API
Dear Steve Crumb,
I presented my work about GLARE in first session of CDDLM at GGF16. GLARE provides XML based software component description and automatic deployments framework.
Currently we are using simple XML documents for software component descriptions, but as Dr. Dejan Milojicic suggested, we would like to use CDL for descriptions and deployment specifications sometime later.
I could not find CDL schema and APIs (including Java stubs) on CDDLM homepage. May I request for a copy of schema as well as APIs?
Thanks with best regards mumtaz