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How to create a plugin for Buildr

2009-09-16T18:02:20Z

Prerequisites:

Install git.
Install ruby, rubygems, and the braid gem.

The steps:

The basics:

Create a new folder and cd to it.
run git init
run braid add git://github.com/apache/buildr.git --branch trunk buildr
run ln -s buildr/rakelib rakelib
Create your .gemspec file.
Then copy buildr/Rakefile to Rakefile, and replace the reference to buildr.gemspec to your .gemspec.
Create your structure: a lib, a spec folder.
run echo "_reports" >> .gitignore

The spec setup

Create spec/spec_helpers.rb
Paste this code in it:

unless defined?(SpecHelpers)
  module SandboxHook

    def SandboxHook.included(spec_helpers)
      # For testing we use the gem requirements specified on the buildr4osgi.gemspec
      spec = Gem::Specification.load(File.expand_path('../my.gemspec', File.dirname(__FILE__)))
      spec.dependencies.each { |dep| gem dep.name, dep.version_requirements.to_s }
      # Make sure to load from these paths first, we don't want to load any
      # code from Gem library.
      $LOAD_PATH.unshift File.expand_path('../lib', File.dirname(__FILE__))
      require 'mymodule'
    end
  end
  require File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), "/../buildr/spec/spec_helpers.rb")

end

You’re done.

Try rake -T to see the buildr tasks available, use rake coverage to run tests and rake failed when you need to insist.

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2009-06-24T23:20:00Z

Maybe you heard some humming out there, or your favorite place ran out of beer suddenly. That’s a sure sign a new Eclipse release came out.

As an Eclipse member, Intalio provides a page to download the latest Eclipse Classic SDK. Enjoy!

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2009-05-18T15:25:12Z

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2009-03-20T17:01:46Z

I would like to request an amendment to RFC 1855.

My request concerns the use of punctuation in communications, either one-to-one or one-to-many.

My request goes along this recommandation:
Use mixed case. UPPER CASE LOOKS AS IF YOU’RE SHOUTING.

People tend to overuse exclamation marks to emphasize a sentence and actually just give the feeling they are shouting:
Upper case looks as if you’re shouting !

The repetition of exclamation marks reinforces the effect:
Upper case looks as if you’re shouting !!!

However, this might be interpreted differently depending of our culture. I think the Indian culture uses this type of expression more often as they want to express emphasis over a sentence.
I think this might need to be addressed from a cultural point of view. Ultimately, we would need to offer other ways of using emphasis. For example, starting a sentence with “What is particularly important is …”, adding emphasis by the use of adjectives “We really need …”, or taking a bit more time to explain the sentence: “In this case, we need more information from such and such as our process indicates. We need …”.

I wasn’t able to contact the RFC author, and I figured I’d paste this somewhere.

Eclipse.org has been down ; how can we help ?

2009-02-26T21:58:58Z

Our webmasters are having a rough time, the downloads area is down because there were recent issues with mirrors. All my sympathy goes to them.

I think we can help. I filed 266380 today:

Would it be feasible that we make I-builds and N-builds, that are most of the
time only available on the Canada website, to be available as torrents ?

People would help each other downloading them and depend a bit less on the
server.

I myself would be happy to set a high ratio on such torrents.

I think we could have a script to create torrent files in the same way we have a script to push files to mirrors. I welcome your feedback, and I hope we can all help eclipse.org stay up soon.

Da Open Source Executive Strategy Summit

2009-02-26T10:55:48Z

Wow, I received an email to RSVP to ECSS, the EclipseCon Strategy Summit.

The program consists of an analyst report, a pound of legal advice, two servings of feedback on open source strategies and a final panel.

The content looks good, there’s plenty of good and experienced speakers, it’s all well scheduled and planned.

Though, I tend to believe this kind of day would be better served by an unconference style.
I think it would really be thrilling for executives to come down that day, listen to an analyst keynote to get in the mood, and then grab a whiteboard and make their agenda for the day.

I believe that my CEO would be absolutely thrilled to participate to a meeting like that : get to know more people, more projects, coordinate efforts, and maybe even discuss open source strategy.

Of course you should take all this with a grain of salt. Last time I checked there was still written “Software Engineer” on my name tag.

IRC and newsgroups

2009-02-20T22:50:34Z

I just had this discussion with Remy Suen:

rcjsuen: toulmean: It is certainly nice that newsgroups answers can be archived whereas IRC isn't.
toulmean: rcjsuen: well. We could archive the IRC discussions with echelog to some extent ?
rcjsuen: toulmean: In a way. I guess part of the issue is that newsgroups postings are generally better formulated than IRC chat logs.
toulmean: rcjsuen: well, yeah, but I prefer IRC because of the human touch.
rcjsuen: But well, it isn't something we can do anything about anyway.
toulmean: yeah. You know eventually we could add a command to KOS-MOS: remember last 5 exchanges with x, y, z
toulmean: and post those exchanges to the newsgroup
toulmean: rcjsuen: then KOS-MOS would send back the url to the message it posted
rcjsuen: I don't know about that.
toulmean: rcjsuen: so all the guys asking hard questions can ask them, then we push the questions to the newsgroup, so there is no overlap.
toulmean: rcjsuen: otherwise people ask once, two, thee times in different places. It's hard.
rcjsuen: Right.
toulmean: rcjsuen: just an idea, do what you want with it.
rcjsuen: toulmean: When I remember to (which I usually don't), I try to put the question in the FAQ when it's been asked a lot.
toulmean: rcjsuen: let's about it again later ? let's let it sink a bit.

What do you think ? A keeper ?

CDT on IRC ?

2009-02-19T10:47:21Z

CDT, as in C Development Tools, is currently under represented on IRC, as in Internet Relay Chat.

We get a lot of questions about it on the #eclipse channel on Freenode. Some people complain about content assist not working, some have more specific C questions, and so far it sounds like we can’t help with them.

CDT committers, if you have some bandwidth left, please come down here, it’s all fun and community gathering.

If you don’t have time, I understand.

The BPMN modeler is hosted on github. Fork it today.

2009-02-18T15:40:34Z

Oisin hinted he was into experimenting with git:

Perhaps someone could come up with a github mirror of one of the components and we could see how that works?

Come fork me on github! I’ll try to keep in sync with the current trunk, which should work as long as no svn switch happens.

One member of the STP PMC reacted to my call. I am still waiting for others to show themselves and share their wisdom.

Next in line - pushing Babel over to github. Let’s see if Denis, our trusty webmaster, likes it!

Letter to the STP PMC: Please express interest over a DVCS

2009-02-17T09:01:43Z

I sent out an email to the STP PMC yesterday night:

Hi all,

STP has proven to be cutting edge in many ways regarding the Eclipse development process. In particular, we were amongst the first to adopt a Subversion repository.

The reason why we went for those repositories are varied. First, I think most of us acknowledged that CVS was not fitting the bill so much anymore. We were also increasingly using SVN at work, and had gone through the hurdles of mastering it.

Some time passed. git and mercurial came along and revolutionized quite a few things. Just look at github and how the commit rate of rails changed since they moved there (around the 5th minute on this video of the Rails commit history [0])

I opened a bug about the possibility to move to git [1], and a webmaster hinted that supporting git would be considered if a couple of top level projects were asking for it.

That’s why I’m asking you to please cast an informal vote for this move. Please consider also voting on [1].

Thanks,

Antoine

[0]: http://vimeo.com/2979844?pg=embed&sec=2979844
[1]: https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=257706

Do you want to see DVCS support at Eclipse ? Please consider writing to your PMC today.

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QUT | ePrints Archive - Communication Abstractions for Distributed Business Processes
Languages for business process definition generally suffer from myopic approaches to capturing communication between distributed processes. Effective communication between processes requires: support for conversations involving interrelated interactions spread over time; ability to select and group messages based on their content, regardless of format and transport technology; and resolving contention between processes or tasks for common sets of messages. This paper presents a set of communication abstractions that provide a ``glue'' between the process layer and the middleware. The paper also reports on an implementation of these abstractions and an experimental evaluation.
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Process is perennial. Within any business activity or enterprise it is crucial that the variable of "operational efficiency" is maintained at sufficiently high levels, such that the return on investment is sustainable enough to justify its continued existence. Business Process Management (BPM) is the term used to encapsulate a process-driven approach to attaining enterprise operational efficiency. Despite BPM being ranked as top priority by organizations, current status of BPM research suggests a gap of addressing present industry demands. In this paper, we aim to identify the issues that organizations face in their efforts to manage business processes, as identified by BPM experts across the globe. The findings point to, among others, lack of top management support, lack of tool support for process visualization, and lack of connection between process design and process execution.
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Over the last years, significant academic progress has been made in the area of representational analyses that use ontology as a benchmark for evaluations and comparisons of modeling techniques. This paper proposes a research model to guide representational analysis projects, which extends existing procedural models by incorporating different stakeholder perspectives. The paper demonstrates the application of this model for the purpose of analyzing the Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN), a recent and popular candidate for a new process modeling industry standard. A brief overview of the underlying research model characterizes the different steps in such a research project, while the BPMN analysis project emphasizes the importance of validating with users the propositions obtained via the analysis and communicating those to the technique developers in order to increase the impact of evaluation research to Information Systems practice.
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The Business Process Modelling Notation (BPMN) is a graph-oriented language in which control and action nodes can be connected almost arbitrarily. It is supported by various modelling tools but so far no systems can directly execute BPMN models. The Business Process Execution Language for Web Services (BPEL) on the other hand is a mainly block-structured language supported by several execution platforms. In the current setting, mapping BPMN models to BPEL code is a necessary step towards unified and standards-based business process development environments. It turns out that this mapping is challenging from a scientific viewpoint as BPMN and BPEL represent two fundamentally different classes of languages. Existing methods for mapping BPMN to BPEL impose limitations on the structure of the source model. This paper proposes a technique that overcomes these limitations. Beyond its direct relevance in the context of BPMN and BPEL, this technique addresses difficult problems that arise...
QUT | ePrints Archive - Pattern-based translation of BPMN process models to BPEL web services
The Business Process Modelling Notation (BPMN) is a graph-oriented language in which control and action nodes can be connected almost arbitrarily. It is primarily targeted at domain analysts and is supported by many modelling tools, but in its current form, it lacks the semantic precision required to capture fully executable business processes. The Business Process Execution Language for Web Services (BPEL) on the other hand is a mainly block-structured language, targeted at software developers and supported by several execution platforms. In the current setting, translating BPMN models into BPEL code is a necessary step towards standards-based business process development environments. This translation is challenging since BPMN and BPEL represent two fundamentally different classes of languages. Existing BPMN-to-BPEL translations rely on the identification of block-structured patterns in BPMN models that are mapped into block-structured BPEL constructs.
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Business practice shows that, often, different process models are employed in the various phases of the Business Process Management life cycle, each providing a different paradigm for capturing and representing the business process domain. Recently, significant efforts have been made to overcome the disintegration of process models by providing complementary language standards for process design (BPMN) and execution (BPEL), based on the claim that these languages are semantically integrated. However, the conceptual mapping between both languages remains unclear, thus it is undecided whether any BPMN diagram can be transformed to BPEL. In this paper we argue that there is conceptual mismatch between BPMN and BPEL that needs to be identified in order to guide the language integration process semantically.

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