[cddlm] RE: CDL schema/API

[Milojicic, Dejan S (HP Labs)]

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 at 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 at dps.uibk.ac.at]
> > > Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2006 4:55 AM
> > > To: scrumb at ggf.org
> > > Cc: dejan at 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
> > > 
> > > --
> > > http://dps.uibk.ac.at/~mumtaz
> > > 
> > > 
> > 
>