Nice,
I will really happy to help you, I try to follow the train ;) and first
step watch this presentation :)
Nicolas
Le 24/10/2015 16:59, Sharan-F a écrit :
Hi Everyone
Yesterday we held a Skype call (Adrian, Ron, Taher and Myself) to talk
about the proposed Framework re-write. Please see below the main points from
the meeting:
*Meeting Discussions*
We started by talking about our expectations. We then briefly discussed what
a framework is as there are different interpretations. Our agreed definition
was something around a basic central environment on top of which services,
applications or even scripting could run.
We also talked about the way that the current OFBiz framework has evolved
and some of the resulting problems. We have the opportunity to create
something completely new and robust that resolves the issues we have
encountered especially around dependencies.
We agreed that having a plan or roadmap would give us structure, visibility
and would also keep us focussed on our end goal. We also decided that it
would be good to start small and generic which would leave us open to able
to expand into other areas in the future.
*What do we want to Achieve?*
We had previously reviewed Adrian’s documentation Initial Framework Vision
Document
<https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBIZ/Another+Framework+Vision>
and Initial Framework Design Document
<https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBIZ/A+New+Application+Framework+Design>
, and agreed during the meeting that this would be a good starting base for
us. In this proposed subproject we would like to implement a framework that
would initially comprise as follows:
• Configuration.
• Globalization (locale, time zone, currency).
• Logging.
• Security (authentication/authorization).
• Actor Management (profiles, roles - required for security; Actors -
people, external services) Think of UML Actor. Required to remove dependency
on Party
• Persistence (file system or database).
• Lang package to provide classes that are fundamental to the framework
• Services.
• Runtime management
*Initial Approach *
At this stage we don’t currently have enough information to build our
implementation roadmap so have agreed on an approach that will help provide
that information. The main steps are as follows:
/*
Expand and complete Framework Design Documentation* /
a. We need to describe and define what is meant by each of the 9 areas
mentioned above. (what is it?, what does it do?).
b. To do this we will write the API specification for each on the wiki
(*NOTE*: Even though the API spec will be include Javadoc, we want to
use the wiki rather than a repository at this stage as we want to validate
and agree them before any coding starts :-)
c. We will open the API specifications for review and comments from the
community, and based on feedback, do any updates
d. Once the API specifications are agreed, we will have more information
about the work involved and should be able to put together an initial
version of our implementation roadmap
*Initial Deliverables *
• An API Specification for each of the 9 areas including Javadoc
• An Implementation Roadmap
*Initial Milestones*
• Completion of each API specification (includes feedback and community
agreement) giving a total of 9
*Outstanding Actions*
• Find out what is involved in setting up a subproject repository and
mailing list for the subproject within Apache (Sharan)
• Continue to complete API Spec documentation including Javadoc (Ron and
Taher, with Adrian for review)
• Review organisation and structure of other frameworks for ideas to
incorporate (All)
I hope that I've captured the main points so Taher, Ron and Adrian, please
feel free to add or update anything that I've missed or misinterpreted.
I also hope this update has been useful in giving everyone an idea of what
we are initially planning to do. Please remember that if you are interested
in helping us to complete the API specification documents or have any ideas
that you think it would be good to incorporate then please include your
comments in the various documents. As usual all contributions are welcome!
Thanks
Sharan
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