Hi, My project is to implement *Tuscany SCA support in the Geronimo Admin Console*. My mentor is Ant Elder and the following is an effort to brief the work carried out during the first half of the GSoC.
As my first step, I spent time to understand what Geronimo ACEs are, and how to implement them. The main building block of a Geronimo ACE is a portlet. So my next move was to learn the concepts behind portlets. Then I did some reading and coding work to get familiarized with portlets. Then I worked on implementing a simple Geronimo ACE. So I followed an article recommended by Ant. After puting some effort, I was able to implement an ACE which was up and running. Then I explored the possibility of calling JSPs and Servlets from an ACE. Calling a single JSP was pretty straight forward. But calling a cascade of JSPs was not straight forward. So I went throigh the JSR 168 specification and some other resources to figure out the exact way. After doing some reading and test codes, I started working on the actual ACE. Ant was kind enough to allocate me an area in the sandbox [1], to commit my work. I started adding contents to a simple ACE. This was done in an iterative manner to make sure the resulted ACE is perfectly up and running in the latest Geronimo distribution. I referred to the existing domain manager app, and added some similar contents to the ACE. I submitted few patches which contained this workings to the JIRA [2], I have created earlier.* Problems Encountered* The current Geronimo-Tuscany integration is not working with the latest Geronimo distribution. So it will be hard to carry on work due to this lack of functionality. Having an underlying integration will help me to add some functionality to the ACE. *Next Step* Now it is decided to integrate the available domain manager app with the ACE. So now I am looking at the possibilities and the required workarounds for that with the help of my mentor. Finally I would like to thank the Tuscany community and especially to my mentor, Ant for helping and guiding me. I am looking forward to complete this project successfully and I am doing my best to achieve that goal. Thank you. best regards, / thilina [1] - https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/tuscany/sandbox/thilina/geronimo_ACE [2] - https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TUSCANY-2391 On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 9:25 AM, Luciano Resende <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > To help Mentors with mid-term evaluation, I'd like to suggest students > to send a mid-term update describing high level > progress/acomplishments towards the original project proposal. > > Mentors : Any thoughts on this ? other suggestions ? > > -- > Luciano Resende > Apache Tuscany Committer > http://people.apache.org/~lresende <http://people.apache.org/%7Elresende> > http://lresende.blogspot.com/ > -- E-Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] I blog here : http://thilinamb.blogspot.com
