system, which initially will only be used for object metadata related to
cloud providers.
* .gitignore: Added an ignore pattern for Emacs etags file (TAGS).
[in core/src/main/java]
* org/jclouds/providers/ProviderMetadata.java: Added.
(This file is a simple interface cloud providers will implement to be
pluggable into this new plugin system.)
* org/jclouds/providers/ProviderPredicates.java: Added.
(This file contains predicates that will filter Iterable<ProviderMetadata>
objects.)
* org/jclouds/providers/Providers.java: Added.
(This file contains "simplicity methods" for getting available cloud
providers based on certain criteria, like by type or by id.)
[in core/src/test/java]
* org/jclouds/providers/JcloudsTestBlobStoreProviderMetadata.java,
org/jclouds/providers/JcloudsTestComputeProviderMetadata.java: Added.
(These files are implementations of org.jclouds.providers.ProviderMetadata
used for testing purposes.)
* org/jclouds/providers/ProvidersTest.java: Added.
(This file tests org.jclouds.providers.Providers.)
[in src/test/resources]
* META-INF/services/org.jclouds.providers.ProviderMetadata: Added.
(This file is used by java.util.ServiceLoader to locate the available
cloud provider implementations on the classpath.)
Andrea Turli
andreaturli
Andrew Donald Kennedy
Gustavo Morozowski
Jeremy Whitlock
Andrew Phillips
Alex Yarmula
Hugo Duncan