VisualAgeRepositoryFileSystemStories

Note most of the stories use WinCVS? as an example of a file based tool that we want to get working. But it could be visual source safe or just plain notepad, or the file indexing service (ooh now there's an idea :-)

Simple as that really. If you run the JLAN server on your windows machine, you have to switch of file sharing. This negates most of the advatages of the tool!

Intention: allow the developer to work on a single machine.

Implementation: at XtC12062001? SteveF suggested looking using NFS instead of SMB. I think this is a great Idea, can somebody find some Java NFS server things, and a free Windows NFS client. I don't think it's a great idea precisely because of the lack of the previous two things. Whereas there are free SMB clients and servers everywhere. Where is NFS preferable to SMB??

VisualAge already provides remote access to the repository, but the API appears undocumented, so I suspect you have to pay to get your hands on it. But then I switched it on, and made sure trace was on. com.ibm.ivj.toolserver.HttpToolServer? appears. Whack that name into Google, and BINGO https://xpdeveloper.com/docs/remacc.pdf

The PDF tells you how to get it all working. The classes look exactly the same as jserve, but re packaged into com.ibm, I not so sure they're allowed to do that :-)

However this is just a simple way to run servlets, you have to actually write them yourself. OK so maybe a HTTP GET/PUT interface is exactly what we need.

Tasks:- 1. DonegetMethod to serialize Diretories as text/xml, with castor 1. DonegetMethod to serialise Files as text/plain 1. ProxyFileSystemNode? that will connect at get the pages. 1. putMethod to base68 encode files