I believe that major future releases are already assumed to require an export and re-import of the existing data. As long as we include scripts that properly handle pre-3.2 data, administrators should be able to migrate their existing data.
- Jen On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 3:59 PM, Cris J Holdorph <[email protected]>wrote: > What's the 'migration' for an existing uportal installation to a new > installation? > > ---- Cris J H > > Jen Bourey wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> As part of the Portlet Administration Portlet work (UP-2047), Unicon has >> been working on a re-implementation of IChannelRegistryStore and the >> ChannelRegistryManager. I've been working on replacing the existing channel >> and channel type persistence with a more modern JPA/Hibernate approach, as >> well as splitting the existing ChannelDefinition and ChannelType classes >> into interface/implementation pairs. This work should allow us to remove >> some of the legacy database code from uPortal and move four tables >> (UP_CHANNEL, UP_CHAN_TYPE, UP_CHANNEL_PARAM, and UP_CHANNEL_MDATA) from >> tables.xml to hibernate. I'm hoping that this work will better position us >> to make changes to the associated domain objects and service layer code in >> preparation for some proposed portlet approval lifecycle work (email to >> follow). >> >> To start, I've tried to preserve the existing data tables as much as >> possible, and they should continue to have the same table and column names. >> However, I've moved the sequences away from the custom uportal sequence and >> changed the classname of the channel definition entity. As a result, >> committing this patch will require anyone working in the trunk to >> re-initialize his or her database. I'd like to commit this work sometime >> tomorrow. Does anyone have objections to this work appearing in trunk >> tomorrow or have concerns about needing to run an initdb? >> >> - Jen >> >> -- >> Jen Bourey >> >> -- >> >> You are currently subscribed to [email protected] as: >> [email protected] >> To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see >> http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/uportal-dev >> > > -- > You are currently subscribed to [email protected] as: > [email protected] > > To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see > http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/uportal-dev > -- Jen Bourey -- You are currently subscribed to [email protected] as: [email protected] To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/uportal-dev
