| [ohf-dev] Revised Plan for 2006 |
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The 2006 OHF plan represents a first step towards the goals outlined in the 2006 Eclipse Roadmap, which says:
A future growth area for Eclipse is to extend our projects to provide open source application frameworks and exemplary tools targeted at standards
The long term goal of the OHF project is to meet these goals. For the year 2006, the OHF project will be focusing on selected low hanging fruit. Generally, the selection of the work we propose to complete this year is based on one or more of 3 factors:
In the future, higher priority will be given to focusing on a coherent and complete framework to support the development of healthcare applications. For This reason, it is likely that none of the items in the plan will be regarded as fully released as we will reserve the right to rework the interfaces for consistency during 2007.
The 2006 plan is divided up by the project, generally following the projects proposed at the face to face meeting in Washington, October 2005.
This document is a draft; it will be finalised at the OHF FTF meeting at Eclipse Con 2006 (Thurs afternoon Mar 23).
OHF will begin publishing a exemplary implementation of a number of IHE profiles. Theis year, we will release preliminary implementations of the following IHE profiles:
These IHE profiles which will be contributed by several different members. We will plan to work towards a more consistent interface and paradigm in the future.
Eclipse OHF will investigate involvement in the HIMSS demo for 2007, either outright in a collaborative form with OHF member vendors.
Several OHF technology pieces are candidates for HIMSS involvement, most obviously the IHE profile implementations (especially server side using OSGi/Server), the H3ET tools, and CTS.
During 2006, we plan to release underlying V3 infrastructure, specifically java class representations of HL7's MIF and message formats along with the supporting code for persistence and validation. In addition, we will formalise our relationship with HL7.
In addition, as an adjunct to the V3 tools, we will also release a set of V2 tools, that will support:
We will commit all the code that Mayo Clinic is donating for CTS, LexGrid and the LexGrid editor to the Eclipse cvs. We will create an Eclipse package for CTS consumers (i.e. clients) to allow CTS consumers to delegate CTS provision to run-time configuration. We will investigate CTS involvement in the HL7 HIMSS demo for 2007, and we will publish a plan for the longer term development of CTS.
During the year 2006 we will hold regular teleconferences, along with supporting email discussion. These telecons will lead to the publication of an architecture for an integrated security framework for healthcare applications, which will be a focus for OHF development in future plans. The architecture will be integrated with other Eclipse initiatives on security.
In collaboration with the Equiox and ECF projects, a Web/Servlet Container that hosts an OSGi environment will be released.
OHF will implement the XDS plug-ins in this container as an exemplary test case, which will result in the XDS functionality being available as a web service.
A plugin representing a simple WADO client will be released, and will serve as a basis for preparing an extensible architecture for a standard WADO client.
We will hold at least 3 FTF (face-to-face) meetings. The meetings will be held in conjunction with healthcare standards meetings or industry conferences. Ongoing discussion for the time and place of these meetings will be held on news:eclipse.technology.ohf.
In addition, we will update the web site, and thereafter keep it current. We will keep records of OHF FTF meetings on the OHF web site.
Finally, we will define our Milestone releases for this year, in accordance with this plan, at the FTF meeting on Mar 23 and publish these on our website and newsgroup.