irmis-devel Mailing List for IRMIS

Hi all,

 

It's that time of the month:

https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=226514&package_id
=274120

 

Most of my attention has been directed on finishing up the new
ComponentEditor, and I believe it is in a good enough shape to replace
the old one. Part of that effort also included redesigning some of the
basic building blocks of the GUIs, which will affect the other
applications as well. For example: component trees now support arbitrary
ordering (for example, by logical description, by component type,
etc...); the short trees to display the ancestry better support multiple
parents and partially parented components.

 

We also have contributions from Doug Sheffer, an MSU student who is
spending the summer here at BNL. He added a server side safety check to
make sure circular references are not added to the component hierarchy.
He relaxed the constraints on componentType update, allowing to
add/remove Interfaces and Ports on already defined ComponentType. And he
has added support do describe Channels in ComponentTypes.

 

Full change log is available on Trac at:

http://apps.sourceforge.net/trac/irmis/query?status=closed&group=compone
nt&order=priority&col=id&col=summary&col=owner&col=type&col=priority&col
=component&col=version&milestone=3.0.8-alpha%20(r924)
<http://apps.sourceforge.net/trac/irmis/query?status=closed&group=compon
ent&order=priority&col=id&col=summary&col=owner&col=type&col=priority&co
l=component&col=version&milestone=3.0.8-alpha%20(r924)> 

 

Next month we will continue cleaning up of the GUIs and add channel
support in them.

 

Gabriele

 

Hi all,

 

We just had a planning exercise here at BNL, and I wanted to share the
result.

 

I have a list of our projected deadlines for the rest of this calendar
year, which more or less says what I'll be concentrating my work on
these next 6 months. I also have a list of should have's, meaning what I
would work on if I finish the other tasks earlier. Then there is the
rest of the laundry list, not prioritized in any particular order.
Naturally the nature of any plans is to be revised later, so take it
with a grain of salt...

 

June:

Cable pull support (in terms of API and scripting, no GUI)

 

July:

Channel Support

Files and Fieldmaps

 

September:

Split component table to prepare for future configuration support

Save/restore

 

October:

PV introspection

 

Should have (prioritized):

Security support

Configuration support

 

Past 2009 (not prioritized):

Cable pull support in Cable editor

Component history

Prescriptive PV

Rest of Descriptive PV

EPICS device support

Alignment

IOC support

 

When I have a chance, I'll put this information in Trac.

 

Gabriele

Hi Rami,

 

Sorry for the late reply but it has been a busy week. Also, please post
to the irmis-devel list as irmis-svn should not really be the list for
discussions. 

 

Unfortunately I don't have a definitive answer for when we'll have
authN/authZ: it is something that we would want to have before the end
of the calendar year, we would prefer having it earlier, but it is not
tied to any specific deadline we have to meet at BNL: it is not critical
_at this moment_ for us and other functionality is (I am going to send
another e-mail  on planning in a moment). More precise than that would
be giving you a date that can at any point be pushed back because
something else pops up the stack. The good news that the design is
already done: it's just a matter of taking the time to implement it.

 

I am not aware of anybody who uses IRMIS+glassfish+security. My
suggestion is the same as before: either think about a temporary
solution at your site, or think about contributing the solution...

 

Thanks,

Gabriele

 

From: Rami Ahmad [mailto:ram...@gm...] 
Sent: Saturday, June 06, 2009 9:12 AM
To: Carcassi, Gabriele
Cc: Irm...@li...
Subject: Re: [Irmis-svn] authentication in IRMIS

 

Hi Gabriele,

When do you expect to have the authentication on IRMIS done?

yeah I know there are many way to secure the application but I prefer to
have it built in in the application. 

does anyone secure IRMIS using glassfish?? if yes please send the
instructions.. 


Regards
Rami