On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 10:47 PM, Jay Balunas <jbalunas(a)redhat.com> wrote:
On Jun 28, 2013, at 5:15 AM, Matthias Wessendorf wrote:
> Some "Polyglot" toughts on "topic demos" and/or the show-case
>
>
> I'd like to see at least one "topic example", written in something
> else than Java(EE). This makes it easier for us promoting the mobile
> libraries to native iOS developers (or JS guys), since a JavaEE based
> backend is not something they would prefer using (most of them).
>
> For us the point is really "promoting" our MOBILE efforts, and we know
> our mobile lib's don't care about the backends. (E.g. take the
> integration tests we have for Android, iOS or JS - they go against
> Reddit or Github API - we have no clue (perhaps a guess) what they use
> for implementing these "services")
>
> Ok, now this ProDoctor is based on Forge/JavaEE, which is fine with
> me, since that's IMO the classical JBoss target. Also, if I understood
> Luke's comments from Summit, these guys
> are looking into "mobile" (Android, JS, iOS), so that's a good spot
for
them.
>
> However, the other platforms are also important (especially when
> talking to JS/iOS hackers).
+1
>
> I'd say, yes - why not build another topic-example, based on a
> different "backend technology".
> I'd prefer Node.js over Ruby/Sinatra... (I can't read Clojure, so I am
> not proposing that :-))
+1 for node.js/nodej instead of Ruby/Sinatra.
>
> I mean another topic demo, not a rewrite (aka "ProDoctor.js" ;-))
I'm not against a new topic demo, but at the same time why not reuse the
ProDoctor clients?
/clients
/ios
/android
/etc..
/servers
/nodejs
/wildfliy
README.md
If go with something completely separate we would need to commit to
maintenance of it in the same way as the others.
>
> Or maybe even the "Show-Case" in some other language??
> Take JRuby/Sinatra for example: But I am not 100% sure what that means
> if the "show-case" should/would also demonstrate our java libs (e.g.
> AG-Security).
I'm -1 to this for the first iteration of the showcase example, although
as I mentioned we could certainly talk about multiple backend support
>
> I *think* with TorqueBox/JRuby we can use most of our "java libs", but
> does require JRuby (and TB), right? So I am not 100% sure on that....
>
>
> Greetings,
> Matthias
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 8:00 AM, Matthias Wessendorf <matzew(a)apache.org>
wrote:
>> On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 11:39 PM, Kris Borchers <kborcher(a)redhat.com>
wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On Jun 27, 2013, at 16:04, Jay Balunas <jbalunas(a)redhat.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Jun 27, 2013, at 8:39 AM, Kris Borchers wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Jun 26, 2013, at 5:15 PM, Jay Balunas
<jbalunas(a)redhat.com>
wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi All,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> As discussed in the team meeting I wanted to restart
discussions
around the demos for the project. I know it is long but it is also very
important that we agree on our example strategy because it is one of the
primary ways that people will learn about AeroGear - especially just
starting out. We also need to balance this with the fact that maintenance
of multiple examples can be time consuming (src, docs, tests, etc...).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Let me state what I think would be a good model for us at a
high
level, and then when we come to a consensus about this we can dig into the
individual example ideas, specifically around the "showcase" demo (likely
in another thread).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> All of this is my opinion, not law ;-)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> _Showcase Demo_
>>>>>>
>>>>>> One larger scale demo that we can cover all (or nearly all) of
the
planned functionality up to 2.0. There has been several ideas tossed
around from stock broker, prodoctor, etc... I don't want to focus on the
specific app at this point. Functionality would be additive as we
completed it, so the idea would need to be easily "upgraded" as we go.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The app should include all client types as examples (iOS,
Android,
Hybrid, Web), have a central backend, be deployable to OpenShift, and run
on Wildfly/EAP. It would require documentation to discuss complexities and
usage for an advanced application, but would not need to cover the bread
and butter imo (that is what the quickstart tutorials are for). We would
have to commit to long term maintenance of this as well.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> There are pros and cons for this type of application. The
maintenance and development burden is high. Also we need to be careful not
to devote so much time to the application that it takes on a life of its
own. I.e. we are not really trying to make a fully competitive stock
broker app.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> We also want to consider if/how this application would be
deployed
to an appstore. Depending on the application it may be very appropriate
for it to be there, but we'll need to discuss.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Does this sounds acceptable as the scope and starting point for
a
showcase demo?
>>>>>
>>>>> Yes, this sounds good to me. One comment - I would say that being
deployable to OpenShift and run on Wildfly/EAP should be "possible" but not
a requirement.
>>>>
>>>> Not sure what difference is between having it be possible and having
it be a requirement. You mean it might not be able to deploy to these, or
just that it would be just one of the options? From the comments below I
think you mean the latter - right?
>>>
>>> I mean for a JS demo for example, I would prefer it not be in a maven
based file structure with a pom.xml.
>>
>> I agree
>>
>>> It would be better to just be an HTML app that someone could drop in a
maven project I'd that's what they wanted to use but they shouldn't have to
be familiar with that setup to understand where the
>>> demo files are.
>>>
>>>>> IMO, if possible, this backend should be flexible enough to deploy
to multiple backends, in fact, at some point it might be nice to provide a
choice of backend. I agree that our central backend should have those
requirements and by default the clients would point there but it should be
clear that the clients aren't tied to one backend as well.
>>>>
>>>> +1 I would like to see that too. We've talked from time to time
about vert.x, torquebox, node.js, ruby, etc... I think these are optional,
at least at this point, but would certainly be nice to have in place. I'd
love to see a /servers directory right next to the /clients directory :-)
>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> _Topic Demos_
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I'm not sure about this category of demo yet, but wanted to
bring
it up. There are use-cases, and functionality that by their definition are
beyond the scope of quickstart, and yet we would likely not want to have
the showcase demo be the only location we demo the functionality.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The best example of this I can think of is Unified Push. I
think
we all agree, just the basic setup and requirements around push make it
more than a quickstart. With the various servers, configuration, certs,
etc... At the same time, we need a demo (both sooner, and simpler) than
the showcase demo for the related tutorials, docs, etc...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> So this category would be for this type of "topic" - I
could see
the possibility of some security functionality falling into this too, but
I'm not 100% on that.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It would have the same type of requirements as the other demos
-
docs, tests, maintenance, etc...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Pros would be a more focused demo for specific functionality,
cons
are another non-trivial demo to maintain.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> My personal opinion here would be take it on a case by case
basis.
>>>>>
>>>>> I think this is where multiple uses out of a single showcase could
come in handy. We could write tutorials around a single portion of the
larger showcase demo, highlighting the topic at hand (unified push for
example). I think that could be useful both for highlighting a single piece
of functionality and for breaking that large app down into digestible
pieces.
>>>>
>>>> That is a good point, and something we should do for the showcase app
for sure.
>>>>
>>>> It actually sounds like from Pete and JDFs definition of quickstarts
that the "topic examples" might really still fit that classification anyway.
>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> _Quickstarts_
>>>>>>
>>>>>> This category sounds like it might be the simplest, but as a
whole
I think it represents a fairly large amount of work. Imo a quickstart is a
focused demo, that highlights 1-2 specific use-cases. JDF has a lot of
good definitions and requirements for quick starts that we should consider
as well, where they don't conflict. For example build tools, deployment
options, etc...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The trick here comes with how to manage and handle all of our
different "parts". Do we group by client type, by functionality, etc...
So for example, take a security related quickstart. It should show how to
integration security across the various client types. Is that 1 quickstart
for security, or 3 by client type.
>>>>>
>>>>> So I would say there is no single solution here. My thought would
be
that if this is a server side quickstart (demoing a new feature in security
for example), it would be a single quickstart with 3 (or 4 with hybrid)
very simple clients included. For client quickstarts, an idea I had would
be that they could be there own quickstart so there would be 3 or 4 of them
and to solve the single backend, we have one more repo for the backend and
it can be included as a git submodule to each quickstart. I'll wait for qmx
to object here :) as I am also not a huge fan of submodules but I think
they could solve a problem here and with appropriate instructions in the
README could be handled properly.
>>>>
>>>> Can you break this down in hypotedical directory/repo structure?
>>>>
>>>> /foo
>>>> /bar
>>>> etc...
>>>
>>> I'll respond here later as I am on my phone right now :)
>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Related to this is the cookbook idea that the Android team is
using. Imo I think it is VERY important that all of our client types share
a similar approach (cookbook or not). We don't want completely different
approaches by client type. If we do group quickstarts (some or all) by
client how will we handle common server-side functionality such as that
security example above.
>>>>>
>>>>> I am a fan of the cookbook idea and I think my comment above
addresses that concern.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> All of these items get complicated quickly, but I think we need
to
nail this down asap because we should start thinking about our quickstart
libraries soon imo.
>>>>>
>>>>> +1 we need to start on quickstarts ASAP
>>>>>>
>>>>>> _One off examples_
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Another type of example was mentioned in the ML, and that is of
one-off examples for presentations, blogs, etc... Imo these are useful,
and likely needed some of the time.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I think we should re-use our other examples when possible, but
I
also know that will not alway work for various reasons. These examples
carry no maintenance expectations, and should not be in the AeroGear
repositories either imo.
>>>>>
>>>>> +1
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I also think it is possible for one-off examples to
"become"
quickstarts, but would have to meet the standards for a quickstart as we
describe them.
>>>>>
>>>>> Sure
>>>>>>
>>>>>> _Repositories_
>>>>>>
>>>>>> This is a related topic that I think will likely become its own
thread or document, and that is about repository usage for the example
types above. In general we need a better policy imo around this topic in
general.
>>>>>
>>>>> I don't think we need a spelled out document for this but agree
that
this should probably be its own thread. I would prefer that this be
discussed after we figure out our demo strategy, then we'll have a better
idea of repo needs and can plan from there.
>>>>
>>>> Agreed on holding back the conversation while we discuss the
examples, but with as complex a project as this I really believe we need to
have and maintain standards for things like this, or we'll end up with
spaghetti.
>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> * Showcase example: I believe it should have a single
repository
with /server, /client, and /docs directories as needed. I believe having
separate repositories is confusing and leads to clutter. The intent of the
showcase app is to demo how everything integrates in one place, and should
be easily accessed.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> * Topic examples: I believe these should have a similar
requirement
as the showcase example. The point of the topic example is to cover a
specific topic, not specific individual clients.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> * Quickstart examples: This again gets complicated, and may
depend
on the way we choose to group them. However we group them, I think we
should have a limited number of *-quickstart repositories, we should not
have a repo for each quickstart. We'll need to discuss this as we discuss
quickstart planning in general.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> * One off examples: should not be in AeroGear's repository
at all.
Imo, if we aren't committing to maintain it we should not have it our
repository.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> _Forge and JBDS_
>>>>>>
>>>>>> We also need to discuss how any of these examples relate to
forge
and JBDS efforts. At the very least, imo, some of our quickstarts should
be based on scaffolding, and tooling. Imo many of the example (where
possible) should be compatible with forge, and JBDS.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Not all examples would need to be compatible. Obviously that
does
not apply to iOS, and we would need to balance the effort required on a
case-by-case basis for others. It just might not make sense or have a
different target than forge or JBDS. That is fine, I don't want to use
this as a handicap, but we should be considering both of these as we go.
>>>>>
>>>>> I agree that we need some forge and tooling specific examples,
quickstarts, what ever. My only concern is that unless we can get the code
generated by forge prettier (proper white space being one of my biggest pet
peeves) so that someone looking at the generated code doesn't struggle to
read it, I don't want the demo code scaffolded. Not sure how possible this
is but IMO is very important for the usability of our demos as learning
tools.
>>>>
>>>> This is another standard is needed imo, or at least updated and used.
Coding standards for the various languages, IDE config files where
possible. There is one in the repos now, but it has not been updated,
review, or maybe even used in a long time.
>>>>
>>>>>> ----------
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Again, I don't want this thread to break down into specific
use-case discussions, I want us to discuss the example strategies for the
project, then we can kick off separate thread for break down specific
examples, and plans for them.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -Jay
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