Re: [mylar-dev] Need advice on how to go about implementing a connector

[Eugene Kuleshov <eu@xxxxxxxx>]

Nathan Hapke wrote:
> > 2) Would you recommend a SOAP or a REST interface for any specific 
> > reason or based on experience with JIRA vs BugZilla?
> I didn't write any of the internals of either of these connectors, so 
> I can't really comment on that.  My intuition says that it's probably 
> more complexity than you need though.
> > 3) Does Mylar recommend any particular remoting protocol, like RMI or 
> > Burlap / Hessian
> Mylar makes an effort to make sure that connectors are not imposed any 
> restrictions on which connection protocol they wish to use.  if it's 
> helpful for you the org.eclipse.mylar.context.core plug-in exports the 
> Apache httpclient, and xml-rpc client libraries.
 I am sure Mik will comment on this, but there is some ongoing effort 
to unify data structures for repository integration. This JTrac project 
could be a really good driver for this. Such unified API would make 
integration of the new issue trackers with Mylar much easier.

 Generally I believe that the simpler is the better. Hessian and Burlap 
are quite proprietary.

 RMI will be the most troublesome choice because non-http protocols 
disabled almost everywhere and even for http many users have to go to 
the external world trough proxy. We should also keep in mind non-Java 
clients and non-Java servers.

 So, REST over HTTP is probably the best choice, but there is still 
plenty of gray area about data structures and what remote calls need to 
be exposed.

 regards,
 Eugene