Improve build : FraSCAti

[mdutoo]

For a newcomer (and us), building FraSCAti is currently the most cumbersome step of building EasySOA, see tdelprat's experience at #80 & #87 "Improve build system".

See current problems and workarounds at https://github.com/easysoa/EasySOA/wiki/Building-easysoa and https://github.com/easysoa/EasySOA/wiki/Releasing-EasySOA .

EasySOA currently relies on FraSCAti's latest development version to benefit quickly from new INRIA patches and improvements. Main problems are :

• 1. DONE Maven proxy workaround FraSCAti dependencies' repositories are numerous and for some often very slow or down,
• 2. DONE by nightly snapshots building FraSCAti should not be mandatory,
• 3. TODO building FraSCAti and also Fractal (to patch them if we want) should be overall easier, and better tailored to EasySOA.

• LATER Another related topic : making Fractal build easier.

  What are INRIA's ideas ? Here are mine :

  1. FraSCAti maven repositories cleanup

Cleaning up FraSCAti build by putting as much as possible dependencies in a "good" maven repository, Sonatype's Central if possible (or OW2 but that would go against Maven good practice), especially old / unmaintaned ones like OpenArchitectureWare's

2. providing nightly builds.

(note that it doesn't solve transitive dependencies though, see above)

That could be done using FraSCAti CI (http://bamboo.ow2.org/browse/SCA) and a snapshot repository. Possible snapshots repository are :

• http://repository.ow2.org/nexus . None there yet. To be used instead of the old maven.ow2.org now read-only, seems FraSCAti at some point still used it in November though, ex. it tries and fails to release maven artifacts there : http://bamboo.ow2.org/browse/SCA-TINFI-302
• or better maven central
• or https://frascati-repo.lille.inria.fr/nexus/content/repositories/snapshots/org/ow2/frascati/ (has snapshots but not updated since August)

  3. smaller EasySOA-targeted FraSCAti build

going further towards having a smaller EasySOA-targeted FraSCAti build with only things (repositories, artifacts) we require :

• no petals,
• no OAW if possible.

This can be done by a separate build, a maven profile, or further rethinking the top of the FraSCAti build.

Note that having our own bootstrap - WebExplorer's actually - already goes this way, as does the long term goals of making FraSCAti more modular.

[mdutoo]

As of 2012/02/14, FraSCAti has nightly builds & is configured as follows, TODO update EasySOA poms & dev doc and see to what further extent FraSCAti maven setup has been cleaned up (own repository, OAW...).

FraSCAti is continuously built on following two integration servers:

• http://bamboo.ow2.org/browse/SCA/
• https://ci.lille.inria.fr/frascati/

If you need to know the status of the current development of FraSCAti (the SVN directory /trunk), check these two dashboards.

Maven artefacts for FraSCAti are automatically deployed at https://frascati-repo.inria.fr/nexus/ Use following in your pom.xml files to have access to all FraSCAti artefacts:

<repositories>
<repository>
<id>frascati-repo</id>
<name>FraSCAti Nexus repository</name>
<url>https://frascati-repo.inria.fr/nexus/content/groups/public</url>
<releases>
<enabled>true</enabled>
</releases>
<snapshots>
<enabled>true</enabled>
</snapshots>
</repository>
</repositories>

<pluginRepositories>
<pluginRepository>
<id>frascati-repo</id>
<name>FraSCAti Nexus repository</name>
<url>https://frascati-repo.inria.fr/nexus/content/groups/public</url>
<releases>
<enabled>true</enabled>
</releases>
<snapshots>
<enabled>true</enabled>
</snapshots>
</pluginRepository>
</pluginRepositories> 

Moreover, as of 2012/02/23, Sonar metrics for FraSCAti are available at http://sonar.ow2.org . Other metrics computed by Ohloh are available at http://www.ohloh.net/p/frascati .

[JGuillemotte]

Update of EasySOA pom's to add references on new FraSCAti continuous build repositories.

The Main work was to add the repositories specified in the previous comment in the parent projects : easysoa-proxy-parent and easysoa-registry-parent.

In addition, old FraSCAti repositories where removed in the parent POM's to avoid dependencies version conflicts.