1. API and Interface Tasks

2. Sources ICAT Google code site TopCat
TopCat
Code Review by Intersect (DataMINX)
This meeting
Developers

3. ICAT Google code site Contributed by users and developers
Allow access edit from portal.
Rule base permission
Queue XML ingest
Open ICAT to non fed-id owner
Allow User to upload data via the portal.
ICAT API Logging
Add permanent and citable reference to the data
Transition from ant to maven 2

4. Code Review by Intersect
“to assess the capability, quality, ...suitability”
Several minor code issues
Bugs, commented blocks, test code in main code, auto-generated code not used.
XmlIngest
Poor naming (e.g. getDatafile method calls createDatafile)
Due for a rewrite
Asynchronous for high rate sources
Code metrics

5. Security Database lookup for every action Replace with rule mechanism
3 years old = public
Instrument scientists (see DB Independence)

6. Database independence
Currently tied to Oracle
Triggers
Database effort was available
Could be done in API
Rules based security

7. TopCat (Core API changes)
API Change - search without login
Anonymous login method

8. TopCat
Use cases
New ones?
Opinions?
Code development

9. This Workshop
What do you need at your facility?

10. Summary Several ‘Minor’ Fixes Rules based security XmlIngest
Database independence
TopCat!