I doubt I will have a lot of time to devote to this project, but I'll be happy to help (if you need any) on the JBI side ...
On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 15:58, Rafal Rusin <rafal.ru...@gmail.com> wrote: > Please discuss this proposal: > > http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/HISEProposal > > ------------------------ > Abstract > > HISE will be an implementation of WS-Human-Task Specification. It will > stand for Human Interactions Service Engine. > Proposal > > HISE is to provide a deployable component ready to interpret human > interactions defined in xml files, as specified in WS-Human-Task 1.0 > Spec, as well as expose taskOperations Web Service for tasks > management. > > Note that this proposal covers only services implementation, not > including any web consoles. So it will contact with external world > using Web Services. > Background > > WSHT project is beeing developed at TouK. It is currently used in > other projects by wiring up Spring beans provided by WSHT. > > In current version, there is implemented about 20% of spec, which > includes task creation, assigning, retrieval. Persistence is > implemented. Currently, there are no task escalations and > notifications. > > WSHT project is beeing donated to Apache Incubator to become HISE > project at Apache. > > Rationale > > There's a need for an engine which will interpret high level people > interactions definitions. There's no need to reimplement human > interactions in various projects from scratch (handling notifications, > escalations, tasks lifecycles, tasks reassigning). So such project > will follow DRY rule in SOA world. > > There was some discussion before, which pointed that this kind of > project would be desired at Apache > (http://markmail.org/thread/es3h3yprjrttxhlu). > > There was also Agila project in Apache Incubator, which was meant to > implement Human Workflow solution, but it's abandoned (probably > because of too broad scope - it included BPEL engine implmentation and > web console for management, details are here: > http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/agila/trunk). > > So in HISE there's aim to shorten this scope and implement only > services for WS Human Tasks spec. This would consist of 2 > distributions (war and jbi) which would expose web services for tasks > management. There was some interest on ServiceMix mailing list too, so > jbi distribution would be desired > (http://markmail.org/thread/svyxd6xrm2tbwnsz). > > Initial Goals > > Currently, there's only POJO based possibility for connecting with > WSHT services. The goal is to add Web Services based distributions. > Those will include WAR and JBI distribution. > > Second thing is to implement remaining WS-Human-Task spec. It will > include adding scheduler, implementing time notifications and adding > tasks escalations. > > Third thing is to migrate Hibernate JPA to OpenJPA for licensing reasons. > > Future plans (after 1.0 release) include OSGi bundle distribution to > increase wide adoption of HISE. > > Current Status > > Meritocracy > > WSHT project originally was developed at TouK company by a set of > committers. All of those committers did a contribution to this > project, so they have required merit. > > TouK currently has one committer in Apache ODE project, which is > expected to share knowledge about meritocracy inside community. > > Community > > WSHT has currently a small community consisting of developers inside > TouK company. This is due to short life of this product. It was > recently exposed to public and there's a plan to expand community at > Apache Incubator. > > Core Developers > > The core developers of WSHT are from TouK company. One of the > committers is already an Apache ODE committer. All developers from > initial committer's list are experienced in open source development, > since they all built this project to current usable status. > > There's a plan to increase diversity of developers among various > companies. This is planned to be done at Apache Incubator in the > meritocratic way. > > Alignment > > The current code base is targetted for use inside Spring by creating > specific beans. But the goal is to add WAR and JBI distributions, > which will increase possibility to adopt HISE in J2EE and JBI SOA > worlds. Potential projects benefiting from HISE are Apache ODE (by > combining BPEL processes with human interactions), Apache ServiceMix > (by using service for human interactions in ESB), Apache CXF and > Apache Axis (by using human interactions services from other deployed > Web Services). > > It's also expected to migrate from Hibernate JPA to OpenJPA for > underlying storage. > > Known Risks > > Orphaned products > > Initial contributors are vendors of this product. So there's no risk > or warnings for abandoning this project. > > Moreover there's already an interest from external communities to join > this project for development when it enters Apache Incubator. > > Inexperience with Open Source > > WSHT was started as a closed source project. > > Core developers are already experienced with other open source > projects including Apache OfBiz, Apache ServiceMix, Apache ODE. One of > the initial committers is a committer in Apache ODE project and is > expected to share knowledge of open source development process among > others. > > WSHT current code base also depends on various open source projects > like Apache CXF, Apache Geronimo and it was developed by core > developers. > > Homogenous Developers > > WSHT includes committers from only one company (TouK). > > Current committers know each other from TouK, so they are not really > homogenous. This is expected to change during incubation. > > Reliance on Salaried Developers > > All of the developers at TouK are salaried developers. This is > expected to change during incubation phase. > > Relationships with Other Apache Products > > OpenJPA will be used by HISE for it's internal storage. Apache CXF > will be used to expose Web Services to external world. Apache > ServiceMix will be used to expose and test WSHT services as JBI > service. > > Maven2 is used for building. > > There's no competition among other Apache projects for this project. > > An Excessive Fascination with the Apache Brand > > WSHT is donated to Apache because of ability to gather communities > among other projects (Apache ServiceMix and Apache ODE) and external > communities both developers and users. This donation of WSHT project > is for increasing contacts and visibility in open source world and to > develop a satisfying implementation for WS-Human-Task spec. > > This spec currently has closed source implementations usually bricked > up with larger products. HISE is expected to provide an open source > solution for WS-Human-Task spec, which may be adopted in those > projects too to follow DRY rule among various companies. > > Documentation > > Informations about WSHT project can be found at > http://top.touk.pl/confluence/display/top/WSHT+-+WS+Human+Tasks+Implementation > > Initial Source > > WSHT is the only code base for HISE. > > WSHT project has been developed since April 2009 at TouK. > > It was used to vend inside larger products. It was developed from the > beginning under Apache 2.0 License with aim to become open source > project. > > Source and Intellectual Property Submission Plan > > WSHT code base from TouK company (it's developed from the beginning > under Apache 2.0 License). > > External Dependencies > > The dependencies with Apache compatible licenses: > > * > > H2 embedded database (modified MPL 1.1 > http://www.h2database.com/html/license.html) > * jaxb (Apache 2.0 and W3C license) > * aspectj (Eclipse Public License) > * > > jMock Project License (http://www.jmock.org/license.html) > * saaj API and Impl (CDDL v. 1.0) > * Other dependencies are licensed under MIT, BSD, Common Public > License, Eclipse Public License, and Apache 2.0 Licenses > > Not compatible with Apache license (and expected to be removed in > binary distros during incubation): > > * Hibernate (LGPL) > * Jboss Archive Browsing (LGPL) > > Cryptography > > - > > Required Resources > > Mailing lists > > hise-private, hise-dev > > Subversion Directory > > https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/hise > > Issue Tracking > > JIRA HISE (HISE) > > Other Resources > > - > > Initial Committers > > * > > Jakub Kurlenda <j...@touk.pl> > * > > Mateusz Lipczyński <m...@touk.pl> > * > > Michał Zalewski <m...@touk.pl> > * > > Rafał Rusin <r...@apache.org> > * > > Ula Trzaskowska <u...@touk.pl> > * > > Warren Crossing <w...@touk.pl> > * > > Witek Wołejszo <w...@touk.pl> > > Affiliations > > * > > Jakub Kurlenda <j...@touk.pl> (TouK company) > * > > Mateusz Lipczyński <m...@touk.pl> (TouK company) > * > > Michał Zalewski <m...@touk.pl> (TouK company) > * > > Rafał Rusin <r...@apache.org> (TouK company) > * > > Ula Trzaskowska <u...@touk.pl> (TouK company) > * > > Warren Crossing <w...@touk.pl> (TouK company) > * > > Witek Wołejszo <w...@touk.pl> (TouK company) > > Sponsors > > Champion > > Matthieu Riou <mr...@apache.org> > > Nominated Mentors > > Paul Fremantle <p...@apache.org> > > Sponsoring Entity > > Apache ODE PMC > > > Regards, > -- > Rafał Rusin > http://www.touk.pl > http://top.touk.pl > http://people.apache.org/~rr/ > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > > -- Cheers, Guillaume Nodet ------------------------ Blog: http://gnodet.blogspot.com/ ------------------------ Open Source SOA http://fusesource.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
