Google Summer Of Code 2006 proposal for Continuum Eclipse Plugin

As discussed on IRC here's an initial draft for the SOC proposal. Please review and update as you see fit - cheers!

Minor fix.

Looks good. The project must be split in multi-modules (one for continuum connections and one for eclipse GUI)

A quick note:
SoC related updates can be checked out from:

https://svn.codehaus.org/faqbot/trunk/sandbox/continuum-eclipse-plugin

https://svn.codehaus.org/faqbot/trunk/sandbox/refactored-continuum-xfire

Keep in mind that the other components/libs that will be developed along with this plugin should be Eclipse (or any other IDE ) agnostic such that they can be used by clients like gnome/kde/windows applets. The applets can monitor the Continuum instance without having to run from within an IDE.

Moving this proposal to: http://docs.codehaus.org/display/CONTINUUM/Continuum+Eclipse+Plugin+proposal

Hi!

I wrote a plugin continuum-plugin for eclipse, use it as inspiration if you like.
It was under http://www.codehaus.org/~kocka/cm-plugin/

screenshots of version 0.0.1: http://www.jhacks.hu/space/cm-plugin/cm-preferences.gif and http://www.jhacks.hu/space/cm-plugin/cm-view.gif

Thanks Laszlo,

That link to the sources doesn't seems to work. I'd be happy to look at what is already available in there.

Hi!

It was deleted at the codehaus server crash, I attach it to this issue. It works with continuum 1.0.2 and eclipse 3.1
Also, the netbeans-maven2 plugin has a very good functionality which may be good for a begining.

the source of cm-plugin

A quick comparison with the requirements

3-1) Allow setup of connection profiles to multiple Continuum instances.

Not supported.

3-2) Display list of currently added Maven projects.

Supported.

3-3) Allow user to ADD/EDIT/DELETE a Maven project.

not supported.

3-4) Allow user to trigger/force a manual build for a Project.

Supported.

3-5) Allow user to ADD/VIEW/EDIT build definitions for a selected Maven
project.

not supported

3-6) Provide a user-friendly interface to enable user to set up a Cron-based
schedule for a build.

not supported

3-7) Obtain build results for a given project build.

supported in a tricky way, with a browser, as far as I know it should not work with XML-RPC since build logs can grow really large, which would lead to OOMs both client and server side, see also CONTINUUM-713

It uses my own xml-rpc wrapper for continuum, the one maintained by the mevenide project would be better imho.

Great! I have implemented basic (3-1) Connection profiles, and working through (3-2) now. I will have look thru your sources - thanks. What license are they under - ASL 2.0?

Can we move this discussion to:
http://docs.codehaus.org/display/CONTINUUM/Continuum+Eclipse+Plugin+proposal

Regards (3-7), I think it could be an idea to store the log size for that log and add an operation on RPC interface such that clients can query size before they attempt a download. If log size is too big, the user can be warned.

PS: I am not sure about what functionality you were referring to in "netbeans-maven2", I don't use NB. How does it relate to what we are trying to do with CEP (Continuum Eclipse Plugin).

yes, ASL is ok.
confluence...

Pikus has shown interest in developing this and moved this to googlecode (since he does not have an Apache Comitter login and patches may prove time and effort consuming).

Here is the link:
http://c4e.googlecode.com/

why not adding him as a committer ?

if Rahul has time to monitor and apply patches from him, that might be better - but if Pikus just wants to have a go at this at google, he can always propose to donate it back once it's release ready, or continue it there. Closing this out for now.