As DAssitA had moved to almost version been used in more than 3 private projects of mine so far + 2 projects for the East company to which I’m working for it is time to make a quick release of the current repo & its tools/modules.

I have to note that the repo includes some external tools which licenses I’ve didn’t found/included yet, where this will be done for the next major release of DAssitA’s repo 0.1.

Let’s get started:
Minimum requirements:
- Windows 7 OS
- Adobe AIR runtime installed

You can download the repo_0.0.7

And here are the steps required to get it moving:

0) unzip the downloaded repo to a folder where appropriate (mine setup is that the repo is extracted at D:\pd-repo\)
1) install haxe compiler with batteries included from here
2) install last revision of ActionPdmlToolbar
3) install last revision of PdmlEditor
4) to be able to use Svn module – install slick subversion command line client
5) add to your apache  new virtual host pointing to your unziped repo root folder using similar to this syntax:

<VirtualHost *:80>

    ServerAdmin webmaster@pdrepo.dev
    DocumentRoot <<YOUR PATH TO THE REPO's ROOT FOLDER>>
    ServerName pdrepo.dev
    ServerAlias pdrepo.dev
    ErrorLog pdrepo.dev-error_log
    CustomLog pdrepo.dev-access_log common
</VirtualHost>

Note that pdrepo.dev servername alias should not be changed, otherwise ActionPdmlToolbar & PdmlEditor won't boot.

6) add the following entry in C:\windows\system32\drivers\hosts file:

 127.0.0.1 pdrepo.dev

7) enable mod_neko2 for your apache by placing the following in httpd.conf:

LoadModule neko_module "C:/Program Files (x86)/Motion-Twin/neko/mod_neko2.ndll"
AddHandler neko-handler .n

place the ndll file from <<repo>>/haxe/org/dassista/tools/Prc.ndll to your neko directory

And that you go.
To test is DAssitA is installed properly try the following:

1) launch ActionPdmlToolbar
2) open explorer to <<repo>>\haxe\org\dassista\_pdmls\
3) drag the file compile.pdml to the ActionPdmlToolbar
4) double click on the compile.pdml entry from the action toolbar and see that there are no exceptions or anything scary outputed (usually compiling DAssitA itself requires around 5 to 6 secs and should ouput only empty lines)

Currently there is running development on the ActionPdmlToolbar which will support PdmlEditor for execution/parsing of pdml files. Where there current solutions defined into applications is as follows:

DAssistA shell can do only one thing: invoke & pass any command line arguments to specified multi-module.
DAssistA rest can do only one thing which is the same as the shell, but made in rest-like context via http request/responses

ActionPdmlToolbar can do only two simple things:
- list  available (cached) pdmls & triggers their parsing/execution also providing feedback as pop up window.
- list available runtime modules returned by ModuleInfo impl. & trigger their execution.

PdmlEditor can do only one simple thing:
- edit pdml files. Currently it supports drag & drop operations for all available runtime modules returned by ModuleInfo impl.

So far so good.
There are still some little issues which should be fixed before new repo release can be made + engaging auto-update features for both PdmlEditor & ActionPdmlToolbar.

One of the biggest challenges so far is to build ‘universal’ application while keep the code needed to minimum, where this is so far hard near to impossible  even for so simple things like fast & cross-platform command line invokes… But all this soon will be past

Today one quote took a spinning turn in my mind:

Graph oriented data persistence is just the beginning of AI

That’s all it goes…