1. Spitfire Overview
Gavin McCance

2. Outline Review of 1.something What’s different in 2.1?
Spitfire Components
Status

3. What is it? Lets you use remote relational database (RDBMS) Over WAN
Uses Grid certificates for authentication
Cool authorization (configurable roles)

4. What was there before? Release 1.something
Based on the XSQL servlet from Oracle
Defined a server-side template SQL instruction whose blanks were filled in by the parameter’s from the client’s HTTP request.
SELECT LFN FROM REPCAT WHERE

5. What was there before?
This filled-in template was executed on the back-end database (e.g. MySQL) and the resultset returned to the client in some suitable format.
Either plain XML
Or piped through a XSL transform to turn it into a nice webpage first.

6. What happened in-between?
All the cool security bits factored out
Authentication  Trustmanager
Authorization  AuthorizationManager
Jwget  HTTPClient
Repackaging. Immense Spitfire ‘bundle’ unravelled; we don’t ship Java with it now…

7. New in version 2.something
Current release is 2.1.0
Went down web-services road
Client API defined for a Remote Procedure Call web service
Based on the major SQL operations that you’d like to run against a relational database plus some others for accessing the database meta-data

8. Three APIs defined SpitfireBase (~DML stuff)
Insert, Update, Delete, Select
SpitfireAdmin (~DDL stuff)
Create, Drop, Modify(alter)
SpitfireInfo (basic meta-data)
ShowTables, Show ColumnTypes

9. Web Service Implementation
Same as replica web services
Apache Axis
Running inside Tomcat
Exposing the API in a standard WSDL format
Client API libraries auto-generated from the WSDL
Java JAR and gSOAP C++ static library

10. Components (available as RPMs)
The previous version (XSQL) retained as edg-spitfire-browser
Web services version packaged as edg-spitfire-server
Common configuration of browser + server for EDG environment edg-spitfire-config
Clients packaged as edg-spitfire-client-java and edg-spitfire-client-c++

11. edg-spitfire-server + client
RDBMS
Axis
RPCHandler
Spitfire
Server
Trustmanager
WAN
SOAPHandler
Authorization
Manager
Spitfire Axis
Client
App
Servlet engine

12. edg-spitfire-browser
RDBMS
XSQL
Servlet
Trustmanager
WAN
AuthzServlet
Authorization
Manager
Web
Browser
Servlet engine

13. Status v2.1.0 of server + java client made available end of January
v2.1.0 of browser available very soon
v2.1.0 of C++ client available very soon
Documentation is still a bit rough…

14. In CVS ‘edg-spitfire-server’ ‘edg-spitfire-client’
‘ant release’ will build
‘edg-spitfire-server’ RPM + tarball
‘edg-spitfire-config’ RPM + tarball
‘edg-spitfire-java-client’ RPM + tarball
‘edg-spitfire-client’
‘edg-spitfire-client-c++’ RPM + tarball
Any others we might like

15. In CVS ‘edg-spitfire-browser’
‘ant release’ will build
‘edg-spitfire-browser’ RPM + tarball
‘spitfire’ and ‘edg-spitfire-interface’ are dead modules