[news.eclipse.technology.alf] ALF Weekly Project Meeting 04/26/07

["Kim Beckham" <kbeckham@xxxxxxxxxx>]

ALF Weekly Project Meeting

26-Apr-2007



Eclipse Review Process

    a.. No news this week.  Brian will be scheduling the review once we have 
our J-Unit tests ready.
    b.. The tool we purchased is working well to help us generate the J-Unit 
tests.  This will require some manual process to make them fully usable.
    c.. Eclipse is trying to distinguish incubation projects from other 
projects so we need work on getting the word "incubation" into the download 
file names.


Other:

    a.. Need to determine if there's an alternative to using environment 
variable (ALF_Home) and what is driving this. (Tim)  IDD needs to have this 
resolved since it may affect a lot of the doc.  04/26/07 - Tim says the 
contents for ALF_Home will remain the same for ALF 1.0 release, but this may 
change for Vail.
    b.. SSO component is not compiling with the latest release of Axis2 so 
today's build will be done with the earlier version.  This means that the 
SSO support for Event Manager won't be available yet.  These compile issues 
should be worked out for next week's build.  IDD should be able to proceed 
with their writing using today's build.  04/26/07 - the problem is that 
there is no version of Rampart and this won't be updated until mid May.  We 
have worked around this for now until the Rampart issue is resolved.  Dev is 
working with REG on this.
    c.. We need to update the version of Java that we're using to compile 
the build.  04/26/07 - we decided to hold off on this because Vail has moved 
the requirement from 1.2 up to 1.5, which is what we're using.
    d.. Brian and Tim have delivered information to our Cognizant team so 
they can begin developing our component tests.  04/26/07 - Brian has been 
reviewing what Cog has provided and it's a good start.  He's been providing 
some feedback to Cognizant.  They have also started on the J-Unit tests. 
They have asked for a meeting with Brian and George this evening.
    e.. Tim has encountered another Axis 2 problem.  He thinks it's in the 
generated code and if so he can provide a workaround for today's build.
    f.. George gave a nice demo using SSO for Vail.  This really showed how 
Vail will use SSO.  He has merged in a few changes on the ALF side.
    g.. Today's call with Higgins - they are still working to get all pieces 
back together, so we expect it will be May before they have something to 
deliver.  Next call will be Monday.


Decisions/Issues:

    a.. On-line Help - we're not planning to include this as part of this 
release, unless IDD finds they are ahead of schedule and they have time to 
get it in.  We'll use PDFs for now and then add the on-line version for the 
next release.
    b.. Higgins STS - we're currently testing with a snapshot of the STS 
from March.  The new version of this won't be available until the end of 
April at the earliest.  This means we may have to distribute the snapshot 
version with our RC 1.0.  There are other dependent libraries that ALF users 
will need.  IDD will document what is needed, where they need to get it, and 
what to do with it so they have everything they will need.
Actions

1.      Demo - needs to be clearer - Kevin Parker us waiting for us to 
release 1.0 before he updates this.

2.      FAQ - Brian Carroll - 01/29/07 - Still in progress

3.      ALF in the news - Kevin Parker

4.      Requirements - duplicate what's on the team page - Kevin Parker

5.      Vocabularies - add narrative - Kelly Shaw - 01/11/07 - no progress 
expected until after SKO.