[jira] [Work started] (NPANDAY-480) Support Windows Azure Cloud Service Project and Packaging (CCPack)

["Lars Corneliussen (Work started) (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Work on NPANDAY-480 started by Lars Corneliussen.

> Support Windows Azure Cloud Service Project and Packaging (CCPack)
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>                 Key: NPANDAY-480
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NPANDAY-480
>             Project: NPanday
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: Maven Plugins, Visual Studio Add-in
>    Affects Versions: 1.4-incubating
>         Environment: Visual Studio 2010 + Windows Azure Tools + MVN 2/3
>            Reporter: Lars Corneliussen
>            Assignee: Lars Corneliussen
>              Labels: azure
>             Fix For: 1.5.0-incubating
>
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> We want to build and package Azure Projects using NPanday. What that exactly means still has to be figured out here.
> h2. High-level requirements
> * NPanday Addin must support Azure project types (*.ccproj + ServiceConfiguration)
> * NPanday must support Azure Packaging Type (-> *.cspkg) including an appropriate lifecycle until package-phase (publish is excluded!)
> * NPanday should resolve all roles though Maven dependency mechanism.
> -- Web Roles should be resolved as (msdeploy-package) ((!) requires NPANDAY-488)
> -- Worker roles should be resolved as (dotnet-library)
> -- Silverlight?
> * The addin must be able to import Azure Cloud Service Projects *.ccproj -> generate pom.xml
> * The addin must be able to track changes on Azure Projects (Add/Remove Roles)
> * The addin must be able to import .NET 4.0/C#/VB Azure WCF Service Web Role Projects
> * The addin must be able to import .NET 4.0/C#/VB Azure Worker Role Projects
> * The addin must be able to import .NET 4.0/C#/VB Azure Web Role Silverlight Business Application Projects
> *Optional*
> * The addin should be able to import .NET 4.0/C#/VB Azure ASP.NET MVC 2 Web Role Projects
> * The addin should be able to import .NET 4.0/C#/VB Azure ASP.NET MVC 3 Web Role Projects
> *Limitations*
> * {color:red}*Support for .NET 3.5 is not planned, but could be added later if needed*{color}
> * {color:red}*Support Azure SDKs < 1.6 is not planned, but could be added later if needed*{color}
> * Support of new Azure Tools will most certainly require new NPanday release; additional configuration can also be provided locally, though (-> NPANDAY-499)
> h2. Flow
> To test how this could work out, I used the custom lifecycle plugin plus registration of {azure-cloud-service} as package type for *.cspkg. Then, as soon as we know how this should exactly work, we can start creating the needed plugins.
> *prepare-package*
> - {dependency:copy-dependencies} resolve web roles as msdeploy.zip)
> - {exec:exec: msdeploy -verb:sync -source:package=<resolved web role pkg> -dest:dirPath:<tmpdir>}
> *package*
> - {exec:exec: cspack ServiceDefinition.csdef /out:<final-name> /role:<webrole> /sites:<unpacked msdeploy package>}
> h2. Just some notes
> * It seems like MSBuild CCPack task handles the packaging:
> (on my machine: {{{C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v10.0\Windows Azure Tools\1.6}}} 
> * (!) It looks like Azure Packaging also packages the WebRoles by obtaining the files to be packaged from the MSBUILD PROJECT FILES!!!

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