February2006CodeFest

Dates: 6-10, February, 2006.

Venue: CRIA, Campinas, Brazil.

Main Goals:

• Review requirements and desirable features for an advanced graphical user interface.
• Produce API specification for remote invocation of openModeller jobs.

• Implement OmAdapter for omgui1 with OmLocalAdapter prototype.

• Create windows and linux packages of omgui 0.3.4

Agenda:

(morning sessions from 9am to 1pm, afternoon sessions from 2 pm to 6 pm)

Monday, 6

• Strategies for an advanced graphical user interface (from omgui to omgui 1 and omgui 2).
  • Review current omgui 2 mock-ups (new ideas or changes?).

    • See omgui functional requirements.

  • Review current omgui 1 (help installing and running it).
  • How omgui1 can help reaching omgui2? Which components can be reused?
    • omgui2 will reuse a lot of code from both omgui0 (for the wizard) and omgui1 (adapters, tools, etc).

  • Plugin interface between omgui and Qgis (what would be necessary to make omgui a plugin of [TerraView]?).

    • See the GISAdapter interface at omgui class diagrams.

  • Requirements for a desktop client to communicate with a remote bdworld grid component.
    • A plain web services protocol (with or without SOAP) should be easy to wrap using GRID tools.
• Planning reusable components (also considering other interfaces, like web interfaces).
  • Designing components (UML diagrams).

    • See omgui class diagrams.

  • Costs & benefits of using Qt classes for non graphical components.

    • TBC

participants: Anna Catarina B. Tavella, Cesar Bravo, Fabiana S. Santana, Pedro Luiz Pizzigatti Correa, Peter Brewer, Renato De Giovanni, Rubens R. Fonseca, Tim Sutton

Tuesday, 7

• Discussing remote job invocation
  • Current serialization/deserialization mechanisms used by om.
  • Current SOAP interface.
  • Define strategy.

• Working on the protocol & server.

• Working on omgui1.

participants: Anna Catarina B. Tavella, Pedro Luiz Pizzigatti Correa, Peter Brewer, Renato De Giovanni, Rubens R. Fonseca, Tim Sutton

Wednesday, 8

• Working on the protocol & server.

• Working on omgui1.

participants: Anna Catarina B. Tavella, Peter Brewer, Renato De Giovanni, Rubens R. Fonseca, Tim Sutton

Thursday, 9

• Reviewing results

• Current Windows build for omgui (VC++ & Qt3)

  • Tutorial (Ricardo) followed by documentation.
  • Release new version.

• Build strategy for next versions (Cygwin & MinGW).

participants: Cesar Bravo, Peter Brewer, Renato De Giovanni, Ricardo S. Pereira, Tim Sutton

Friday, 10

morning

• Finalizing work.
• Preparing afternoon presentation.

participants: Peter Brewer, Renato De Giovanni, Tim Sutton

afternoon

• Presentation about results and future plans.
• General discussions.

participants: Antonio Mauro Saraiva, Cesar Bravo, Fabiana S. Santana, Nilton Cézar de Paula, Pedro Luiz Pizzigatti Correa, Peter Brewer, Renato De Giovanni, Sidnei de Souza, Tim Sutton, Vanderlei Perez Canhos