The Code Is In

Well it is a very big day today for the project. We have passed legal review, we have passed our own internal technical review and we posted the code into the CVS repository this morning.

Brian Carroll, who leads the architecture team for the project, posted this news on the newsgroup today.

Kevin

Dear ALF community,

I am pleased to announce that the source code for the version of the ALF Event Manager to be used for the ALF Proof-of-Concept (POC) is now available in the ALF CVS repository.

Details and notes:
1. The process followed the Eclipse procedure for code contributions that were not "developed in the Eclipse CVS". First, I submitted an Eclipse code Contribution Questionnaire for the ALF Event Manager on January 23rd. After interacting with Janet Campbell, Manager of Intellectual Property for the Eclipse Foundation, the code was reviewed for IP and accepted by Eclipse for check-in to CVS. I then checked the code into CVS late today (Feb 1st).

2. The code is in the Eclipse repository with the following properties:
Connection type: extssh
Host: dev.eclipse.org
Repository path: /home/technology
Archive location: HEAD / org.eclipse.alf
Component: eventmgr
Sub component (i.e. package): org.eclipse.alf.eventManager

3. The corresponding IP log is in the same repository, under Component:
releaseReviews, Sub component: Feb2006

4. An excerpt from the code contribution questionnaire (with personal info excluded) is shown below:
Submitter:
Name: Brian Carroll
Organization: Serena
E-mail: bcarroll@serena.com

Committer
Name: same

PMC
PMC Name: Bjorn Freeman-Benson

Contribution
Project: Technology
Subproject: Application Lifecycle Framework
Component: Event Manager

Name: ALF EventManager (POC Version)
Version: POC (Proof of Concept) version
Size: 1800
Description: The ALF Event Manager is the component of the Eclipse Application Lifecycle Framework project that receives events from participating tools and applications, examines those events, and dispatches the appropriate ALF ServiceFlow (i.e. BPEL-defined process) to handle the event.
All communication uses Web Services, including the raising of the Events and the dispatching of the ServiceFlow

Pre-existing Packages: Yes. The intention is for users to download those packages themselves. [Those 3rd party packages are not part of the contribution.]

I coordinated and personally conducted the reviews of the code for quality, origin of the code, and intellectual property rights prior to authorizing this contribution, and have approved these 15 modules of the ALF EventManager (POC version) for contribution to Eclipse.

Contributor
Name: Manny Panis
Organization: Serena Software

Contribution Percentage: 100
Other Contributors: Manny Panis wrote 100% of the code, using as a guide the design specified in the ALF Architecture document published on the Eclipse ALF website.
Brian Carroll (Serena, bcarroll@serena.com) and Tim Buss (Serena, tbuss@serena.com wrote that Architecture document and consulted with Manny while he was writing the code.

Cryptography: Not applicable.

4. Special note about the code: The EventManager code is a Java Servlet.
The initial version is intended to be compiled using the Servlet 2.3 libraries as it uses the SingleThreadModel which has been deprecated in Servlet 2.4 libraries. Visual code inspections suggests the ALF Event Manager is multithreaded, but conservatively we have used the SingleThreadModel marker interface until sufficient load testing indicates it is multithreaded, at which time we will remove that marker.
The code that is checked in is the same as is used in the ALF POC integration work that Tim Buss is conducting with the ALF partner community.

Please download and review the code.

Regards,
Brian