Hi Rajith,

On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 3:30 PM, Rajith Roshan <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
>>
>     please find the images below
>
>> On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 3:16 PM, Rajith Roshan <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> Life cycle is an integral part in any product. Each SOA governance
>>> related artifacts can have their own life cycle. Capabilities provided in
>>> order to manage life cycles not only allow you to properly organize your
>>> assets but also provides many extensibilities (For ex through custom
>>> executors)
>>>
>>> RequirementCurrent API life cycle of API manager completely depends  on
>>> the life cycle implementation provided by the registry. Since we are moving
>>> away from the registry concept we need a completely new life cycle
>>> management framework which cater for life cycle management within API
>>> Manager and should be able to ship with other products which require life
>>> cycle management.
>>>
>>> Proposed SolutionThe basic idea is to completely decouple the life
>>> cycle framework from the system to which its provide life cycle
>>> capabilities. I.e the system which uses life cycle will not change the
>>> behavior of the life cycle framework and only vice versa will be
>>> applicable. The framework should exist independent of the asset type to
>>> which it provides life cycle capability
>>>
>>>
>>> ​
>>>
>>>
>>> The mapping should be maintained by asset type in order to associate
>>> with life cycle data. To be more specific in database schema level each
>>> asset type should update their tables (add extra columns to maintain
>>> mapping with life cycle data) in order to map  life cycle data.
>>>
>>> The external systems which uses life cycle service should connect with
>>> the service in order to have a unique life cycle id which is generated
>>> by the service. This id should be stored in the external system in order to
>>> maintain the mapping (Each asset should have its own life cycle id). On the
>>> other hand life cycle framework will also store this id in order to provide
>>> all the life cycle related operations for a particular asset.
>>>
>>>
>>> ​
>>>
>>> Basically, we will be providing a class (ManagedLifecycle) with all the
>>> required basic operations. Any asset which requires life cycle management
>>> can extend this class.
>>> Further this can be extended to support features like check list items
>>> as well
>>> Features supported
>>>
>>>    -
>>>
>>>    Custom Inputs - User should  provide with the capability in order to
>>>    save custom values per each state, which can be passed to executors .
>>>    - Executors - Which are custom classes executed during life cycle
>>>    state change operation
>>>
>>>
>>> Please provide you valuable inputs.
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>> Rajith
>>>
>>> --
>>> Rajith Roshan
>>> Software Engineer, WSO2 Inc.
>>> Mobile: +94-72-642-8350 <%2B94-71-554-8430>
>>>
>>
>
>
> --
> Rajith Roshan
> Software Engineer, WSO2 Inc.
> Mobile: +94-72-642-8350 <%2B94-71-554-8430>
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Since this proposed feature is running separately, are we keeping the db
tables in a separate database? If so, we can separate them from products
and bind them to the feature. IMHO it will be an advantage.

Regards,

*Prasanna Dangalla*
Senior Software Engineer, WSO2, Inc.; http://wso2.com/
lean.enterprise.middleware


*cell: +94 718 11 27 51*
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