Hi Sathwik,
I am a dormant Apache ODE committer and I would be interested in contributing
to new development on Apache ODE. I attempted to build a prototype several
years ago on github (https://github.com/aaronanderson/ODE-X) but I lost steam
building the runtime execution engine. Based on my experience with the 1.X code
base there was a large amount of complexity around concurrency, key value
storage, and JPA persistence. These issues made clustering challenging if not
impossible. These are the same challenges I tried to overcome with my own
runtime engine design.
Within the last year I got very excited when I came across the Apache Ignite in
memory fabric which can solve all of these scalability problems. Recently
Ignite introduced built in persistence which would remove the requirement of
needing a DB for persistence. Apache Ignite has many useful features beyond
simple caching such as messaging, flexible transaction management, and of
course clustering. It is not difficult to imagine a thin business process
execution layer on top of Apache Ignite hydrating and dehydrating processes as
requests are received and handled.
I have my own ideas on building a general purpose virtual process execution
runtime leveraging CDI and binary XML but the existing ODE JACOB java
serialization framework could work just as well with Apache Ignite. If
interested I can elaborate on my ideas further.
Apache ODE uses antiquated technologies and there is a huge opportunity to
build a modern Cloud friendly Open Source business process engine exclusively
using Apache sponsored technologies.
Regards,
Aaron
On Saturday, September 30, 2017 1:43 AM, Sathwik B P <[email protected]>
wrote:
Hi Community,
Contributions and involvement from the community towards the project's
growth over the time has considerably diminished. We are seeking new
contributors / committers to continue the growth of the project. Anybody
willing to help the community are welcome.
There has been no much feedback post 1.3.7 release from the community.
Am working on 1.3.8 release bringing on Java 8, Moving to JPA2 from JPA 1
(OpenJPA 2.4.2 & Hibernate 4.3.11), Upgrading to Axis2 1.7.6 and Embedded
server on TomEE7.0.4 which is now under release vote. Hope I might be able
to bring in the 1.3.8 release in the next quater.
regards,
PMC Chair.
