[gatein-dev] GateIn 4.0.0

Julien Viet julien at julienviet.com
Tue Jan 22 18:03:23 EST 2013


Hi,

here is a status update with a milestone reached. The ram persistence and the data import are working which is a good news, let me explain the details here:

The goal is to get rid of DataStorage interface for many reasons. A few services have been developed for 3 years with goal to supplement it one day: NavigationService, DescriptionService and PageService . They have all been developed to fix a particular issue with DataStorage (performance or scalability). So a few things were still managed by the DataStorage : sites and layouts.

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Step1: extraction of the framework used in the NavigationService that is very powerful for managing hierarchy synchronization (i.e load/update/rebase/save) and make it generic enough for reuse. Added a couple of missing features on it. 

Step2: new services have been created to replace to finish this replacement : SiteService for managing sites (similar to PageService) and LayoutService that takes care of loading the layout of a page or a site. (consider a layout as an attachment of a navigation node or a page). Those services have been implemented with existing MOP and the goal was to make nearly all existing module pass. Only tests for dashboard do not pass because the dashboard impl is a hack that should not survive a long time (but persistence is very fine). The SiteService is quite trivial (pretty much like PageService). The LayoutService was also trivial because of the reuse of the Step 1 (which is a **big** win).

Step3: all the NG services have been decoupled from MOP introducing an abstraction layer (SitePersistence for SiteService, PagePersistence for PageService, etc…). At this point the NG services tests are decoupled too. 

Step4: code an in memory store for ram storage .

Step5: reimplement the NG services using the in memory store and validate it with the tests decoupled from Step 3.

Step6: now there is still some work on the import of data. It must be decoupled from the UserPortalConfigService because it is legacy and nearly fix it. The import code was decoupled from the NewPortalConfigListener (a component plugin of UserPortalConfigService). Then a new class wrapping this has been created for importing data.

Step7: update the web portal created 2 weeks ago to boot it (with Arquillian of course)

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So the good news is that it works fine and is reliable enough for continuing the web portal development. 

The boot is fast enough for providing productivity, running a single test takes 5 seconds on my laptop:
1/ web server boot
2/ data import
3/ juzu boot
4/ invoke a controller with selenium

For the fun here is a snapshot of the content of the ram store I made for checking the entire content was loaded : https://gist.github.com/4599534

Julien

On Jan 16, 2013, at 2:18 PM, Bolesław Dawidowicz <boleslaw.dawidowicz at gmail.com> wrote:

> Sounds good
> 
> On Wed 16 Jan 2013 02:07:31 PM CET, Julien Viet wrote:
>> I was thinking about renaming the services those services to use the org.gatein package:
>> 
>> NavigationService, PageService, DescriptionService and the new LayoutService and SiteService
>> 
>> WDYT ?
>> 
>> On Jan 16, 2013, at 11:46 AM, Julien Viet <julien at julienviet.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> it is not possible because the data model is simplified according to the InPlaceEditing spec (https://community.jboss.org/wiki/InPlaceEditing)
>>> 
>>> On Jan 16, 2013, at 10:35 AM, Thomas Heute <theute at redhat.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Thanks for the update !
>>>> 
>>>> Does some of that work could be incorporated into incremental 3.x releases ?
>>>> 
>>>> Thomas
>>>> 
>>>> On 01/15/2013 04:24 PM, Julien Viet wrote:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>> 
>>>>> here is a short update.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Focusing on the services for data that are all JCR based, which is an issue for testing the portal rewrite, so for now focusing on improving this part. The goal is to have in memory implementation of the services for testing purposes.
>>>>> 
>>>>> At the moment I'm working on the rewrite of the remaining legacy service DataStorage. This service has a strong coupling to JCR, the new services introduced (NavigationService, PageService, etc…) are coupled but not that much.
>>>>> 
>>>>> I started the LayoutService that focus on the layout aspect of a UI structure and extracted code from NavigationService for reusing in NavigationService. The DataStorage now uses it for loading and saving pages. This is a good step forward.
>>>>> 
>>>>> I'm keeping the DataStorage at the moment for two reasons:
>>>>> 
>>>>> - we want to continue to use the normal gatein with webui for a little while
>>>>> - the data storage is heavily tested so the testing of the underlying services through data storage is a good thing to have
>>>>> 
>>>>> The next step is to write a SiteService that load and save sites without their template. When it is done, the DataStorage loading/saving PortalConfig will combine the SiteService and the LayoutService for loading configs.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Julien
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Jan 7, 2013, at 3:51 PM, Julien Viet <julien at julienviet.com> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> Just to let you know that I'm starting 4.0.0 in my github repository :-)
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Initial plan is to come with a basic implementation rapidly (1 month?) and then make it formal with a spec when it becomes complex but for now:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> - get away from UI component oriented programming and uses simple MVC programming
>>>>>> - rely Juzu for the web application framework
>>>>>> - uses javax.inject for IOC controllers and bridge with the kernel
>>>>>> - uses Arquillian for developing with testing
>>>>>> - reuses existing services (i.e stuff in components/*)
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> For now dev is there https://github.com/vietj/gatein-portal/tree/4.0.0 but it can be moved to the gatein organization any time.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> The current stuff of course is quite empty but I hope it will become quickly something, but there is Juzu and Arquillian which are very productive.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> If you want to help, it's open for business!
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Julien
>>>>> 
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