This month, as you might imagine, has been dominated by work on the upcoming cataloging-staff client demo release. We’re progressing smoothly and steadily, and expect to reach our target release date of March 18th. Allow me to reiterate some of the features that we expect to have available in this upcoming demonstration release:
The birth of OpenSRF
After months of work, buckets of sweat, and one snapshot of code seemingly unrelated to libraries, we are proud to present our first subproject: OpenSRF (Open Scalable Request Framework), pronounced “open surf”. The 0.1 release of OpenSRF represents the culmination of everything we have posted about here, and some things we haven’t. One of the … Continue Reading about The birth of OpenSRF →
The Router : More on Communication
We’ve recently completed version 0.1 of what we call, simply, “The Router”. Someday a different loving name will likely fall from the sky, but until then… The Router is more accurately described as a Jabber Request Load Balancer and Message Router/Broadcaster. Our main use is to employ The Router balancing client requests across a redundant … Continue Reading about The Router : More on Communication →
XML, JSON
Disclaimer: This entry contains about a dozen acronyms and may make non-techies cross-eyed. *** One of the nice things about designing a new system is that you get to use the latest and greatest toys (err, tools). 😀 It has been mentioned before that the use of XML in Evergreen is pretty pervasive. We make … Continue Reading about XML, JSON →
January Executive Committee Report
Things have been moving along very well in the Evergreen development project since my last PINES Executive Committee Report. We are now actually ahead of schedule and the project is running more smoothly than we initially expected and planned for. We hope this bodes well for the rest of the project.
December Executive Committee Report
On Friday, December 17th, the PINES Software Development staff conducted presentations on the Evergreen project at the PINES Executive Committee meeting in Dawsonville, Georgia. We covered widely varying areas of the software in these presentations. In this written report, I am going to glean some of the more interesting or important points from those presentations … Continue Reading about December Executive Committee Report →