On 8 February 2011 06:40, Paul Brown <paulrbr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Feb 7, 2011, at 10:28 PM, Paul Querna wrote: >> So, I guess this is coming down to: >> 1) Has anyone built any easy to install packages of Cassandra? > > I didn't find it necessary. I implemented a simple embedding wrapper for > Cassandra so that it could be started as part of a web application lifecycle > (Spring-managed). Developers just start up a personal copy of the service as > part of "mvn -Pembedded-cassandra jetty:run" being none the wiser about the > Cassandra underneath unless they care to be. >
Mojo's Cassandra Maven Plugin makes this even easier mvn cassandra:start jetty:run If you don't want to modify your pom.xml to switch either jetty or cassandra off of port 8080 then you'll end up with mvn cassandra:start jetty:run -Dcassandra.jmxPort=_____ Note: the plugin has not been released yet... 48hr left on the release vote >> 2) Can anyone explain their experience with getting non-Cassandra >> developers up and running in a development environment? What worked? >> What was hard? > > I've had technically savvy non-developer resources perfectly happy to work > with the system via Ruby, PHP, or even the Cassandra CLI. "Just do mvn > -Pembedded-cassandra jetty:run" was too much in that case, but "Here are some > useful libraries and here's where the prod/staging clusters are" was fine. > > -- Paul B
