Java Reference Implementation Meeting 2010-09-23

Notes from the Java Reference Implementation Group
Date: September 23, 2010
Time: 3:00 - 4:00 PM EST
Attendees: Greg, Vince, Beau, Pat, John, Dragon, Michael

Notes

• Code-A-Thon Debrief
  • Great participation and interest in the Direct project from the Connect community
  • Active discussion on Connect / Direct integration
    • Still some outstanding questions on areas such as trust model
  • Direct specific working session
    • About a dozen participants Tuesday morning
    • Walked through install of the Agent and Gateway components
      • Including James instances and demo certificates
    • Identified areas in documentation that could be improved
      • Particularly for new developers who just want to set up a test environment
    • Action to create a very simplified walk-through to set things up (Beau)
    • Discussion about multi-resolvers, keying the mechanism per domain or organization
      • Greg says this will require some rework of some of the architecture to allow this
      • Should be possible, but will be a little work
    • Mark Bamberg has offered to help with the install/deploy automation

• MDN
  • Greg completed first implementation of MDN based on specs
  • All handled by the email client, no auto generated messages
    • Leads to questions of business rules and value of MDNs
      • What to assume when no MDN received? An error? Resend it?
      • Still need some discussion on this
  • Checked into repository
  • Fully Javadoc'd
  • Config spec on API website needs updating to reflect changes

• Hudson
  • Greg fixed the failing unit tests
  • Server will email out success/failure upon commit

• Config
  • Pat has checked in updates to the config tool
    • Including UI (just not included in parent pom.xml)
  • Currently has 1 service class that has all interfaces
    • Rather than 4 different services
  • Not using Umesh's WSDL
    • Used the same operations as C#
    • Should be very close, but do not expect identical
    • WSDL based
    • Should be fairly easy to map
  • Using CFX
    • Proxy code is auto generated

• LDAP
  • Possible resource from Code-A-Thon to help with this
    • Bin Chen
  • We will probably have to look into our implementation based on recent comments

• Client API
  • Arien mentioned this briefly at the Code-A-Thon
  • Needs to be brought up in Tuesday meeting (cross-team)