Hi Aaron, Good to hear from you.
We have added basic clustering capabilities using Hazelcast. JACOB now uses JSON serialization with JACKSON. Both these feature are on the trunk and will be coming in 1.4. We can definitely discuss improving the engine. I am game to make ODE more modular in design, reactive and scalable keeping in mind a migration path. regards, sathwik On Fri, Oct 6, 2017 at 3:01 AM, Aaron Anderson <aander...@apache.org> wrote: > 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 < > sathwik...@gmail.com> 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. > > > >
