Re: SCA Toys?

[Simon Laws <si...@googlemail.com>]

On 6/21/07, Venkata Krishnan <fo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> This would be good to get users one step forward with respect to using
> SCA.
> A good tool to have would be one that validates a composite assembly -
> against the xsds and then for overall consistency.  I know we do quite a
> bit
> of the latter as part of the artifact processing but wonder if it would go
> an extra mile if abstracted as a tool.
>
> I also liked the transformers that we have in the databinding modules
> today.  It would be good to have them as individual tools as well.
>
> I'd go for java/tools, atleast to start with.
>
> - Venkat
>
> On 6/21/07, Simon Laws <si...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I've collected a couple of utilites that have helped me during debugging
>
> > some problems (
> >
> >
> http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/tuscany/sandbox/slaws/sample-sca-toys/
> > ).
> > For example this is the code I drop at the end of a test to print out
> the
> > model hierarchy that was built:
> >
> >         // inspect the model
> >         Field domainCompositeField = scaDomain.getClass
> > ().getDeclaredField("domainComposite");
> >         domainCompositeField.setAccessible(true);
> >         Composite domainComposite = (Composite)
> > domainCompositeField.get(scaDomain);
> >
> >         OutputStream os = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
> >         PrintUtil printUtil = new PrintUtil(os);
> >         printUtil.print(domainComposite);
> >         System.out.println("Assembly \n " + os.toString());
> >
> > I'm sure people have much smarter utils than I that they use to make
> their
> > lives easier. If you have tools are you prepared to share them?
> >
> > How about we create a module:
> >
> > java/sca/devtools
> >
> > or even
> >
> > java/devtools
> >
> > Simon
> >
>
Venkat , you make a very good point. I meant to cross posted to the users
list also and didn't. I expect there are thoughts about what might be useful
or even some contributions? Have copied this note to dev and users.

Simon