Kuali Rice – ARC / TRC Update

May 18, 2010 Eric Westfall – Kuali Rice Project Manager

Progress – November 2009 to May 2010

• Kuali Rice 1.1 development kicked off in January 2010• Original Deliverables for Rice 1.1 Release in Q4 2010

– Replace OJB with JPA– Spring 2.5 Upgrade– Improved XML import/export support– Adobe PDF automation contribution from Cornell– Complete the API module of Rice– Version Compatibility– KIM Management Screen improvements– FERPA and FIPPA improvements– Research running KIM standalone

Progress – November 2009 to May 2010

• Kuali Rice 1.0.1.1 released February 5th, 2010– New KIM Service methods to support KFS access

security– KSB Performance Enhancements– KEW Thin Client Enhancements– Numerous bug fixes– Other items in support of the KFS 3.0.1 release

Progress – November 2009 to May 2010

• Kuali Rice 1.0.2 released May 14th, 2010– KEW Application Document Status Enhancement.– Document linking mechanism in Rice.– The "remote" run mode for KIM and other Rice

modules.– Rice Configuration Enhancements– Other items in support of the Kuali Coeus 2.0

release

Progress – November 2009 to May 2010

• Cornell PDF functionality was contributed during Rice face-to-face in January

• Kuali Rice 1.1 was upgraded to Spring 3.0• Many pieces of the JPA implementation were

completed– Configuration and other scaffolding for JPA put into place– Mapping of all entities in Rice– Data Access Object conversion– KSB, KEW and KIM middleware components were converted

and mostly working– OJB to JPA conversion scripts were implemented…

But wait!

JPA

KNS

JPA and the KNS

• The KNS proved to be very problematic from a JPA perspective.

• KNS was designed on top of OJB and some of the fundamental differences between OJB and JPA prevented the Rice team from achieving a successful integration.

• It was becoming critical to figure out how to proceed…

JPA Deferral – ARC Vote

• ARC was presented with 3 options to vote on:– Should JPA be deferred?– If so, should some of the smaller scope 1.1 items be

done on an earlier version of Rice.– If so, should that earlier version of Rice be a 1.0.x

version or 1.1 (with version compatibility becoming 1.2)• ARC voted as follows:– Yes– Smaller scope items on earlier version of Rice– Earlier version will be 1.0.x, not 1.1

KFS, KC, and KS Impact

• KFS - ceased JPA conversion work done so far– Migrated to the 1.0.3 branch for bug fixes and

enhancement work• KC – had not begun JPA conversion yet– They were going to start on this for the next version

• KS – does not currently use the KNS but is planning to.– KS currently is implemented with JPA, so no JPA

support in KNS impacts them.

Version Compatibility• Version Compatibility is a major deliverable of Rice 1.1

• Two types of compatibility:

– Middleware (client-server)– Application Development Framework (i.e. KNS)

• The first of these is the most crucial from the perspective of satisfying our version compatibility requirements. – Supports rational upgrade process (no forced marches)– Supports multiple applications in same environment

running against one Rice server

Version Compatibility - Continued• Application Development Framework compatibility allows for

non-impacting upgrades between Rice versions within a client application.

• Compatibility goals require changes and testing across 13 “areas”!– API– Database Structure– Datasets– URL– Service name– Configuration Parameters– Tag Libraries– XML Schema Changes– Service and DTO Versioning– XML Generated from XStream– Data Dictionary– Plugins– Dependent Libraries

DRAFT -Proposed Rice Releases• The favored release restructuring approach discussed in Rice team

meetings this week is as follows.• 1.0.X ??

– XML import/export improvements– Adobe PDF automation contribution– KIM Management screen work which has already been defined and spec’d– KFS 4.0 bug fixes– Remaining KIM Management screen work

• 1.1– API Module (modularity) (Necessary to achieve Version compatibility)– Version compatibility (Middleware Only! Defer ADF compatibility)– Spring Upgrade (already completed)– FERPA and FIPPA (relative priority?)