Re: [fcrepo-dev] Ingest performance testing

2012-01-26 Thread Daniel Davis
I certainly agree with establishing a library of reusable components (a soapbox of mine too). One note however, on the YourKit testing. Testing for speed of a single operation may or may not help overall throughput. We must be clear on our goals including usability. In the aggregate performa

Re: [fcrepo-dev] xalan, resteasy, activeMQ and JBoss

2011-08-12 Thread Daniel Davis
s time to "carpe diem" once again. This has been a fun thread for me. But eot on this rant. -- Dan Davis On 8/12/2011 1:08 PM, Chris Wilper wrote: > Hi Dan, > > On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 11:14 AM, Daniel Davis > wrote: >> [..] >> Part of this may be the view t

Re: [fcrepo-dev] xalan, resteasy, activeMQ and JBoss

2011-08-12 Thread Daniel Davis
Despite what vendors would have you think, the lines between kinds of "containers" and even system services have become rather blurred. Most of the commercial "app" servers provide servlet containers and EJB containers but may have other sorts of containers and services. Services (all kinds o

Re: [fcrepo-dev] FCREPO-951

2011-08-03 Thread Daniel Davis
The W3C specifications are not perfect anyway, and there are unspoken agendas buried in them. There is a lot of great thought in those specifications and the goals behind them, primarily the network effect, but there are places where they do not directly suit the long term delivery of digital

[fcrepo-dev] Invitation to a Special Topics Meeting - Fedora Security Information Resource Documentation

2010-12-20 Thread Daniel Davis
The Fedora Repository Committer's would like to invite you to a special topics tele-meeting. There are a number of concerns that have been voiced about using Fedora security and its current documentation. You are invited to a special topics meeting to discuss this and to form a working group

Re: [fcrepo-dev] Fedora, 3rd party licences and commercial use

2010-10-19 Thread Daniel Davis
we want to permit rather than actually violating the GPL license. We want to get rid a Mckoi because it is OBE by Derby. But it will be interesting to find out if there is GPL code in the transitive dependencies. -- Dan Davis On 10/19/2010 12:40 PM, Daniel Davis wrote: I am not a lawyer but I

Re: [fcrepo-dev] Fedora, 3rd party licences and commercial use

2010-10-19 Thread Daniel Davis
I am not a lawyer but I would not necessarily interpret this to apply to Fedora. Since Fedora does not statically bind machine code libraries to Fedora it may not be incompatible with GPL. This is endlessly argued and I am sensitive to commercial lawyers being very careful. Their perception

Re: [fcrepo-dev] FeSL, dbxml, and Xerces-C

2010-10-07 Thread Daniel Davis
I am not deep into FeSL so others will be more accurate on your deeper questions. Ubuntu 9.10 and 10.04, Mac OS, WinXP, and Win7 are tested by the committers. Solaris and Open Solaris are being tested by the community. Hopefully, more people who are running on other distros will ring in.

Re: [fcrepo-dev] Fedora maven repository down?

2010-09-08 Thread Daniel Davis
Back up courtesy of Bill Branan. Don't know why Maven died. -- Dan On 9/8/2010 4:44 AM, Nigel V Thomas wrote: > Hello all, > > I have unable to access the third party maven repository for the past day or > so, see > https://m2.duraspace.org/content/repositories/thirdparty > > Could someone tak

[fcrepo-dev] Some trivialities so far in testing.

2010-08-16 Thread Daniel Davis
The copyright notices should be updated to be DuraSpace 2009-2010. Note that on some platforms with Firefox demo:20 and demo:21 do not appear to be returning embedded PDFs however Windows Explorer will. Fedora is returning the correct PDF but it is Firefox that is refusing the connection.

Re: [Fedora-commons-developers] [FC-JIRA] Closed: (FCREPO-111) IRODs Storage Support

2010-04-06 Thread Daniel Davis
URL: https://fedora-commons.org/jira/browse/FCREPO-111 >> Project: Fedora Repository Project >> Issue Type: New Feature >> Components: Fedora >> Reporter: Daniel Davis >>

[Fedora-commons-developers] Possible Service Interruptions January 23 12PM to 4PM EST

2010-01-22 Thread Daniel Davis
Our hosting service for Duraspace, Fedora Commons and the new DSpace Wiki is performing updates on January 23 12PM to 4PM EST. It is not anticipated that this will affect our site but there is the possibility of inadvertent communication interruptions. This may affect the Web site, Confluence

Re: [Fedora-commons-developers] Problems building trunk

2009-10-30 Thread Daniel Davis
m.xml will make it disappear. >>> > > Maybe we should check this change in too? Any downside? > > - Chris > > On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 8:10 AM, Daniel Davis > wrote: > >> Should we set a uniform encoding in Eclipse (and other editors)? Also >>

Re: [Fedora-commons-developers] Problems building trunk

2009-10-30 Thread Daniel Davis
Should we set a uniform encoding in Eclipse (and other editors)? Also line termination? -- Dan Steve Bayliss wrote: > Hi Kai > > Thanks for that - yes it does sound like a good idea to specify the encoding > in the pom.xml. > > Regards > Steve > > -Original Message- > From: Kai Strnad

Re: [Fedora-commons-developers] [Fedora-commons-users] Fedora Performance

2009-10-27 Thread Daniel Davis
I am working on updating and refactoring the messaging client so I hope we can keep this thread going. The goal of the current Fedora installer is to make it as easy as possible to get started and includes a basic messaging capability. However, as soon as you want to scale or take control of

Re: [Fedora-commons-developers] Fedora community software: Apache vs. Educational Community Licenses

2009-09-15 Thread Daniel Davis
John Mark Ockerbloom wrote: > We're developing software to work with various packages we're using or > considering in our library, including Fedora, Sakai, and other Kuali > projects. Sakai and Kuali software uses the Educational Community > License (ECL), as did Fedora 2. I see that Fedora 3 h

Re: [Fedora-commons-developers] Compiling Fedora Trunk, is it possible?

2009-08-10 Thread Daniel Davis
On two of my machines I get a good compile from trunk but since refactoring for Maven is in an interim state the changes could be causing this problem. Could you remove the top level duraspace bundles from your local Maven repository (removing the org.duraspace items is not necessary but will

Re: [Fedora-commons-developers] Maven-m2eclipse Question

2009-07-14 Thread Daniel Davis
local repo). I'm >> not sure how we'd do that while still having build numbering enabled. >> I'm also not sure if m2eclipse is capable of installing local >> artifacts. >> >> On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 11:13 AM, Daniel Davis >> wrote: >> >>

Re: [Fedora-commons-developers] How RELS-INT breaks the Fedora paradigm and opens the door for new and innovative solutions to old problems

2009-07-13 Thread Daniel Davis
up with it after a few weeks vacation): > > So, to summarize what I think Daniel Davis is recommending, as it > applies to developers writing disseminators: > > * datastreams should only be exposed via a disseminator (not accessed > directly, although the capability is there to

Re: [Fedora-commons-developers] How RELS-INT breaks the Fedora paradigm and opens the door for new and innovative solutions to old problems

2009-07-13 Thread Daniel Davis
ce controlling access >> to parts of an object, eg where thumbnail images can be seen by all, but >> only users with a certain role are allowed to see the full size image. >> There could be cases where low resolution images get seen by everyone, but >> high resolution images (

Re: [Fedora-commons-developers] How RELS-INT breaks the Fedora paradigm and opens the door for new and innovative solutions to old problems

2009-07-10 Thread Daniel Davis
I am added my remarks in the text. Daniel W. Davis dda...@fedora-commons.org Asger Blekinge-Rasmussen wrote: Hi I am not sure I understood your post entirely. I have inlined some questions on the parts I find unclear. On Mon, 2009-07-06 at 17:15 +0200, Daniel Davis wrote: I am

Re: [Fedora-commons-developers] Content Model Inheritance

2009-07-09 Thread Daniel Davis
This seems like an appropriate simplification to me. I was thinking too much about inheritance and this part of the discussion got lost in the weeds in my head. Daniel W. Davis http://fedora-commons.org dda...@fedora-commons.org Chris Wilper wrote: > Hi Asger, > > On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 8:07

Re: [Fedora-commons-developers] Content Model Inheritance

2009-07-08 Thread Daniel Davis
; > I suppose my view of objects tends to be service-oriented, since my > reaction to Daniel's comments about plug-ins was first to think object > validation is a good plug-in candidate, and the second was to think > that perhaps the validation should be bundled into services ex

Re: [Fedora-commons-developers] Content Model Inheritance

2009-07-08 Thread Daniel Davis
I think an approach which is static should be considered. In this approach, the content models of superclasses are incorporated into the content models which are stored in objects immediately adjacent to the data object prior to use (a priori). In some ways this is ORE inspired where we confi

Re: [Fedora-commons-developers] How RELS-INT breaks the Fedora paradigm and opens the door for new and innovative solutions to old problems

2009-07-06 Thread Daniel Davis
I am concerned that the Fedora persistence/service model and the global information model are being conflated. A public API is needed to facilitate persistence operations but it is easy in Fedora to overlap the persistence/service model with the public information model which is intended to su

[Fedora-commons-developers] Fedora Commons outage rescheduled to Jan 27th Description Change

2009-01-19 Thread Daniel Davis
Our hosting service has rescheduled the outage to Tuesday January 27th from 5 AM to 7 AM EST. The Fedora Commons servers will not be shut down but users may experience a slowness or brief unavailability for a few minutes, or perhaps some scattered DNS resolution issues during that time frame. T

[Fedora-commons-developers] Fedora Commons outage rescheduled to Jan 27th.

2009-01-19 Thread Daniel Davis
Our hosting service has rescheduled the outage to Wednesday January 27th from 5 AM to 7 AM EST. The Fedora Commons servers will not be shut down but users may experience a slowness or brief unavailability for a few minutes, or perhaps some scattered DNS resolution issues during that time frame

[Fedora-commons-developers] Fedora Commons Scheduled Server Outage

2009-01-14 Thread Daniel Davis
Our hosting service has scheduled an outage for Wednesday January 20th from 5 AM to 7 AM EST. The Fedora Commons servers will not be shut down but users may experience a slowness or brief unavailability for a few minutes, or perhaps some scattered DNS resolution issues during that time frame.

[Fedora-commons-developers] Fedora Commons Confluence Wiki Rich Text Editor Fixed

2008-12-22 Thread Daniel Davis
We have applied a work-around to the Fedora Commons Confluence Wiki to make the Rich Text Editor work for Firefox. Edit away! -- Daniel W. Davis Chief Software Architect, Fedora Commons http://www.fedora-commons.org

[Fedora-commons-developers] Fedora Commons Confluence Wiki having problems with Rich Text Editor

2008-12-22 Thread Daniel Davis
Let no good deed go unpunished. The Rich Text Editor functions in Firefox 3 are not working correctly in the Fedora Commons Confluence Wiki for many users. Attempts to correct the problem have only made it worse and we have a support request into the vendor. Everything seems to function corre

[Fedora-commons-developers] Fedora Commons Confluence Wiki is back in operation.

2008-12-19 Thread Daniel Davis
The Fedora Commons Confluence Wiki is back in operation. There will be additional testing but its capabilities has been restored. -- Daniel W. Davis Chief Software Architect, Fedora Commons http://www.fedora-commons.org

[Fedora-commons-developers] Short Fedora Commons Confluence Wiki Outage at 2:30 EST

2008-12-19 Thread Daniel Davis
There will be a short outage of the Fedora Commons Confluence Wiki today, hopefully less than 1/2 hour, starting at 2:30 EST today. -- Daniel W. Davis Chief Software Architect, Fedora Commons http://www.fedora-commons.org dda...@fedora-commons.org (607) 255-6090 (Office) -

[Fedora-commons-developers] New Fedora Commons Administrator Client Development Forum

2008-12-01 Thread Daniel Davis
Quite a few people have asked that the SWING-based Fedora Administrator client be updated. The Fedora Administrator (a.k.a. the Admin GUI) makes it possible to easily view, edit, update, and create objects in a Fedora repository. A new version of the Administrator will provide many of the same

[Fedora-commons-developers] Fedora Commons Developers and Users Mailing Lists

2008-12-01 Thread Daniel Davis
We are now archiving the mailing lists within the Fedora Commons Wiki (http://fedora-commons.org/confluence). A complete copy each of the Sourceforge.net mailing list archives was loaded into the Wiki and new postings will be archived each day. The mailing lists will continue to be supported a

Re: [Fedora-commons-developers] Using REST to modify a datastream

2008-11-24 Thread Daniel Davis
The REST API is not complete and we are collecting critiques before finishing it. We are concerned that adding too much (all API-M functionality) into it will make it too hard to use but it still needs to have the right capabilities. It is identified as "experimental" because there need to be

Re: [Fedora-commons-developers] JIRA quality review, assignments/next steps

2008-11-14 Thread Daniel Davis
Bill Branan wrote: > I've finished working through my list. There are still a couple of > items from the last round that I believe warrant some discussion: > > 1. https://fedora-commons.org/jira/browse/FCREPO-222 Demo SOAP > Client: Keep? We need to keep the Demo SOAP client. It will b

Re: [Fedora-commons-developers] Creating a new wiki page

2008-10-28 Thread Daniel Davis
In general it is as simple as using the "Add->Page" menu item in the upper right corner of an existing page. But as usual there are complications. First, you must be logged in. Confluence has permissions which are "Space" specific and sometime individual pages are locked down. Also, different

Re: [Fedora-commons-developers] .deb installer for Fedora

2008-09-03 Thread Daniel Davis
How timely!  I am glad your page is there. -- Dan Christian Rohrer wrote: Chris Wilper wrote: Anyone interested in hacking down the weeds on this? http://oxfordrepo.blogspot.com/2008/08/dspace-and-fedora-need-opinionated.html There has been some work done in this di

Re: [Fedora-commons-developers] .deb installer for Fedora

2008-09-03 Thread Daniel Davis
A Fedora Commons Confluence Wiki page has been opened for this project at: http://www.fedora-commons.org/confluence/x/bYBd Please feel free to comment about the proposal (you will need a login - sign up at: https://fedora-commons.org/jira/secure/Signup!default.jspa

[Fedora-commons-developers] Launch of the new Fedora Commons Wiki!

2008-08-28 Thread Daniel Davis
Colleagues, Fedora Commons has re-launched all 671 pages from the old wiki site at fedora.info with Atlassian's Confluence enterprise wiki software to continue to enable the community to work together to create Fedora's cutting-edge open source

Re: [Fedora-commons-developers] XACML Vocabulary missing from 3.0 Docs

2008-08-15 Thread Daniel Davis
Thanks Matt.  I will get it fixed. -- Dan Matt Zumwalt wrote: The vocabulary should be here (according to the Policy Writing Guide): http://fedora-commons.org/documentation/3.0/userdocs/server/security/xacml-policies/vocabulary.txt ... but nothing is there.  I also checked