Rice

Next Generation Infrastructure for Applications

Brian McGough (Indiana University)Aaron Godert (Cornell University)

The Goals

• Enable the technology infrastructure investment that was made for the Financial system to be leveraged by other Kuali sister projects

• Use a common development framework to gain productivity and consistency across Kuali projects

The Goals

• Common underlying infrastructure in other Kuali modules will allow for easier adoption of new modules as they are developed

• Create a reusable development environment that could be adopted as a general approach to systems development and systems integration at an institution

Kuali Rice• There are several

middleware subcomponents that make up Rice

• This diagram represents the core infrastructure components that represent Rice

• The next slide shows the role that Rice components play in applications

Kuali Rice

• As shown in the previous diagram, Rice is made up of several reusable pieces of middleware

• A Rice enabled application will make use of the Rice Client to gain access to Rice middleware functionality

• Using the Rice Client in a project, development and integration with other Rice enabled applications and services comes for free

The Future of Rice

• Looking ahead the components of Rice will allow for enhancements in the ways that our business processes are carried out without having to look at rewriting a bunch of systems

• Adoption of technology standards for components of Rice is a primary concern going forward: BPEL, JSRs, Portals, etc; to allow for interoperation with other standards compliant products and services in our environments