Hi Philippe, Thanks for the questions.
Q The goal of NGOSS is to define models and interfaces between OSS and BSS components. Are these interfaces specified ? in the process of being specified ? A The TM Forum Interface Program TIP is defining the interfaces. The team is drawing from the base of OSS/J and MTOSI to come up with a unified interface standard. Presently the focus is on using SOAP over HTTP and over JMS. These interfaces would effectively be used to implement 'NGOSS Contracts' between OSS systems. You can only get involved in the standardisation process if you are a member of the TM Forum. However as Bull are members of the TM Forum, you would be very welcome to get involved directly in the TIP program. See http://www.tmforum.org/InterfaceProgram/5733/home.html Q What is exactly the goal of openoss ? implement these interfaces as abstract java classes ? There are three main goals for OpenOSS. Firstly to support the creation of the 'TIP Framework'. The design of the TIP Framework is being led by Jerome Magnet of Nortel Networks and will encapsulate the core design patterns and supporting tool chain which take the TM Forum SID model as a starting point for defining interface specifications. Each specification design team will combine end user business cases with information models derived from the SID in order to specify a particular interface. They will then use the TIP Framework as tooling to help their task. Work in progress include a Service Problem Management Interface, a Resource Problem Management interface and an Inventory interface. Relevant facets of the SID model will be ported to a model supported by the Eclipse Tigerstripe project http://www.eclipse.org/tigerstripe/ where various 'Plugins' are used to generate documentation XSD's and WSDL corresponding to the design of each interface. The output from this process will represent the TM Forum Specification of a given interface. OpenOSS will provide open source hosting for the development and testing of the TIP Framework plugins. We believe these tools will have wider industry use beyond just the needs of the TIP program. Secondly, It is intended to provide a framework for rapidly implementing Compatibility Test Kits (CTK) and Reference Implementations (RI) for each specified interface. We want to use the model in Tigerstripe to generate as much of the RI code as possible and significantly speed up the development process for the RI and CTK which are essential deliverables for each standard specification and currently take a great deal of manual effort. There will still be manual effort required but we believe that the model driven engineering approach will greatly speed up the process. Finally, as part of the RI and CTK work, we also want to deliver libraries and example code which will greatly help potential implementers of the TIP interfaces. These libraries would be delivered as Apache 2 licensed open source. The intention is to speed up the time to market for the adopters of the interfaces and avoid some of the pitfalls which previous TM Forum interface efforts have experienced where the lack of support for implementation has prevented mass uptake of the standards by SI's and service providers. We are implementing the RI /CTK and TIP library using Java. However the Java API for the library will not (currently) be subject to standardisation. It will be a de-facto standard for this particular implementation library which adopters of the standard can use if they choose. One thought is that this could be extended to provide a next generation definition for OSS/J but this is not currently a stated design goal. I hope this helps Craig Philippe Guillebert wrote: > Craig Gallen (opennms) wrote: >> TIP Project Creator VERSION 0.1-SNAPSHOT has been released for review >> which can automatically generate archetypal maven projects for >> implementors of the TIP framework. > Hi > > Nice to see some movement around the NGOSS stuff. Bull telecom, as a > partner of the TMF, is following this with a growing interest, but > personally, I'm still trying to grasp the concept. So, some general > questions about your work if you don't mind : > > The goal of NGOSS is to define models and interfaces between OSS and > BSS components. Are these interfaces specified ? in the process of > being specified ? What is exactly the goal of openoss ? implement > these interfaces as abstract java classes ? > > Thanks > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > OpenSolaris 2009.06 is a cutting edge operating system for enterprises > looking to deploy the next generation of Solaris that includes the latest > innovations from Sun and the OpenSource community. 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