Grzegorz Kossakowski pisze:
Vadim, you forgot about FIXME marks ;)
find core/cocoon-servlet-service/cocoon-servlet-service-impl -name
"*.java" | xargs grep -E "TODO|FIXME" | wc -l
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I've been considering participation in GSoC for some time due to my
tottering planes for summer.
Now I'm pretty sure I'll be able to do some Cocoon-related work again
this year. I would like to focus on fixing bugs, implementing lacking
features and general polishing SSF.
My goals would be:
* get rid of most FIXME/TODO marks in SSF code
* implement SAX buffering for service calls
* fix COCOON-1964: Redirects inside a block called via the servlet
protocol fail
* fix COCOON-2096: Servlet source's exists() method always returns true
* provide samples of SSF usage for both situations:
- servlets managed by SSF are pure servlets that have nothing to do
with Cocoon itself
- servlets are both pure servlets or SitemapServlets
For samples I would like to prepare examples how to connect, call
servlets. How to make service calls, make use of polymorphism, etc.
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Apart from that I have an idea of making Cocoon blocks/servlets
distributed and enabling SSF to transparently handle such set up. I
think it would be very interesting to have a possibility to deploy
different servlets to different physical machines and let them talk to
eacher other using HTTP.
Actually, current implementation of servlet-to-servlet connections
exploits only standard HTTP API so this should be quite easy to
implement. That would enable completely new-brand SSF usage patterns like:
* setting up load balancer between blocks (servlets) provided there
are few machines with the same block deployed
* setting up fail-over handling (if one of machines goes down, rest
takes the processing)
* exceptional scalability: if one of blocks is being used extensively,
you can add another machine with this block deployed and make load
balancer aware of it
* even block (servlets) calls through the Internet! :-)
This should be considered as an optional deliverable for my GSoC
activity as it would demand lots of discussing, researching and
implementing in the end. Nevertheless, if time permits I would like to
start experiment with this idea during the summer.
WDOT?
Argh, I forgot about very important issue:
Who is going to be my mentor? Any volunteers on board? :-)
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Grzegorz Kossakowski
