JES and Datacenter Report

Week Ending 18/07/2003

Tasks this week:

• 1 Refactoring Exercise.
  • 1.1 Component Model - "server" side nearly finished (JL), "client" (SOAP) not done.
  • 1.2 Refactoring of Datacenter and JES - finished by this week apart from "client"
  • 1.3 Refactoring Query to extend basics to more advanced SQL (PJN). This has gone very well indeed
• 2 Configuration and Application Messages
  • 2.1 jConfig now used with xml configurations file - finished this week (JL)
  • 2.2 Messages and Internationalization finished, but needs discussion and possible readjustment (See 4 below - JL).
• 3 XML Processing.
  • Investigation of JAXB (JL). This could be a winner but is a fairly steep learning curve. It was going to be a part of 1 above, but requires further work. Estimated saving on iteration 2 code/debugging for Datacenter and JES: about 20%.
• 4 Team Leaders' Meeting (JL).
  • 4.1 Difficult areas re points 1 and 2 above, but meeting very valuable.
  • 4.2 As a result, points 1 and 2 refactored to follow a "decomponentized" pattern. It went very well. I would now recommend this way - JL.
• 5 JUnit
  • 5.1 - Query and subsiduary classes within org.astrogrid.datacenter.query (PJN)
  • 5.2 - Started to produce testsuites for configuration and messages (JL).

Next week:

• 1 Holidays - JL
• 2 Wednesday - AstroGrid installation at Cambridge (PJN)
• 3 Stubs for 1.3 JES services available on hydra (PJN).Involves studying high level designs.
• 4 Basic ant script in place (I fancy setting myself this as an exercise whilst I'm off. Light relief from doing chores at home -JL)
• 5 More JUnit work (PJN)

-- JeffLusted - 20 Jul 2003