multi-repo project/framework configuration

[arkadianriver]

Hi Oxygen experts ...
I'm in the midst of a re-architecture idea, which would break up our DITA mono-repo into separate repositories: DITA-tooling, generated-content, authored-content. The generated and authored content is built by the tooling and these repos have versioning and configurations that are dependent upon each other. In a Windows-only environment, with only Oxygen Editor (with its Java 17), DITA-OT 4.2, and command-line git as dependencies, I'd like to create a UI where authors can select various configurations and obtain the appropriate branches of the three repositories. I can work out the dependencies, but I'm struggling to find the best method of providing a user experience that isn't more complicated than the old monorepo method of just checking out the branch with all the tools and everything together. Maybe a web page hosted by a java httpserver[1]? ..a UI presented by Oxygen with values stored in the project file or framework folder[2]? ... ?
Thanks for any guidance or ideas folks can provide.
Cheers!
- Gary
[1]: I mentioned the web page instead of swing, because my JavaScript experience is much stronger than Java.
[2]: This is the option I'm hoping for.. sharing a project/framework where config values can be easily selected as appropriate, saved as properties, and to kick off git checkouts, etc., through different ant targets.

[Radu]

Hi,
The Oxygen desktop application is Java Swing based so a plugin for Oxygen which shows the end user an user's interface would need to be implemented in Swing.
Also a web server would not help much as the settings would need to be applied by running maybe Apache ANT locally.
How about if you create a custom script that the end user runs from the command line? The script would ask the user for various properties and in the end check out all the necessary projects on the local disk? In this way you would not interfere with Oxygen's functionality, your script would be run before Oxygen would be started..
Regards,
Radu