GCube Development

NOTE: THIS PAGE IS WORK IN PROGRESS

gCube is a Software System whose development activity is ongoing and performed according to the Agile software development methodology. This implies that software components are developed in relatively short subsequent iterations, each containing the tasks needed to release new functionality - planning, requirement analysis, detailed design, implementation, integration, testing and documentation. This leads to a very flexible and dynamic development activity that need to be proper documented.

This page documents the current status of the gCube system as well as presents a series of statistics and metrics on its evolution including progression of source code over time, the developers activity and the results of the automatic build.

Development Status

gCube has been designed by following the principles of Component-based software engineering, thus it consists of various software components interacting each other to implement the expected functionality.

The GCube Architecture section describes in detail the resulting Reference Architecture, the main sub-systems (i.e. logical group of components), their constituents and their relationships.

The system has been implemented according to the Service Oriented Architecture principles and related standards while the Presentation-oriented components are based on portlets. It currently consists of:

• xxx Web Services;
• xxx Software Libraries;
• xxx Portlets.

Such components are logically organized in xxx logical areas.

Sub-system	Component	Type	Status
gCube Infrastructure Enabling Services
Information System	IS-Registry	Service
	IS-gLiteBridge	Service
	IS-Publisher	SW Library
	IS-IC	Service
	IS-Client	SW Library
	IS-Notifier	Service
	IS-Manager	Service
Virtual Organisation Management	VO-Management Authorization	Service
	VO-Management Delegation	Service
	VO-Management CredentialsRenewal	Service
VRE Management	VRE Modeler	Service
	VRE Manager	Service
	gHN Manager	Service
	Deployer	Service
	Software Repository	Service
Broker and Matchmaker	BM-Service	Service
	BM-API	SW Library
	BM-Connector	SW Library
Process Management	CSValidator	Service
	CSEngine	Service
	CSResourceManager	Service
	GLiteJobWrapper	Service
Process Optimisation	Planner	Service
	Rewriter	Service
	POSLib	SW Library
Information Organisation Services
Storage Management	Storage Management	Service
Content Management	Content Management	Service
	Collection Management	Service
	Archive Import Service	Service
Metadata Management	Metadata Manager	Service
	XML Indexer	Service
Annotation Management	ABEService	Service
	ABELib	SW Library
Data Transformation	Metadata Broker	Service
Information Retrieval Services
gCube ResultSet (gRS)	gCube ResultSet (gRS)	Service
Search Framework	SearchMasterService	Service
	SearchLibrary	SW Library
	KeepTopService	Service
	BooleanCompareService	Service
	FilterXPathService	Service
	SortService	Service
	MergeService	Service
	JoinService	Service
	GoogleService	Service
	TransformByXSLTOperator	Service
	IndexLookup	Service
	GeospatialSearch	Service
	FullTextSearch	Service
	FeatureExtraction	Service
	FeatureSearch	Service
	DataFusion	Service
Index Management Framework	Index Generator	Service
	Index Update	Service
	Index Lookup	Service
	Index Common Library	SW Library
	Index Storage Handling Layer	SW Library
Personalisation	UserProfileAccess	Service
	ProfileAdministration	Service
Distributed Information Retrieval Support Framework	DIR Master	Service
Presentation Services
Application Support Layer	ASL Library	SW Library
gCube Portal Engine	gCube Portal Engine	SW Library
Portlets	xxx	Portlet

Code Statistics

We use ??? StatSVN ??? to retrieve information from the project Subversion repository and to generate various tables and charts describing the project development. In particular, the following report are available:

• Report 1
• Report 2

Automated Builds

For the latest build results, please refer to the Build Report.

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The release of the software is regulated by a Integration, Testing and Distribution procedure that aim at building a deployable, reliable and documented software distribution.

The final result of this activity materializes in a set of gCube distributions made available through the gCube Distribution Site.