1. University of Houston Clear Lake
A prototype for migrating the Software Developer’s Assistant (SDA) to open source Content Management System (CMS)
Instructor:
Kwok-Bun Yue
Mentor:
Abbasi Dhilawala
Team # 1:
Aditya Macherla
Arun Gupta Mahankali
Shruti Damle
Truyen Van Le
Vishakha Kadam
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Content
Project Goal
Background
SDA Limitations
Candidate Solutions
Why Drupal?
System Architecture
Implementation
Lessons Learned
Conclusion
Questions
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Project Goal
A prototype for migrating the Software Developer’s Assistant to open source Content Management System
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Background
Who developed SDA?
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Background
Who developed SDA?
What is SDA?
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Background
Who developed SDA?
What is SDA?
Who are using SDA?
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SDA Limitations
No organization boundaries
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SDA Limitations
No organization boundaries
Inflexible modular architecture
Module 1
Module 2
Module 3
Module 4
Module 5
Module 6
Module 7
Module 8
Module 9
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SDA Limitations
No organization boundaries
Inflexible modular architecture
Difficult to upgrade
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SDA Limitations
No organization boundaries
Inflexible modular architecture
Difficult to upgrade
No clean URL
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Candidate Solutions
JAVA
MySQL
Apache
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Candidate Solutions
PHP
MySQL
Apache
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Candidate Solutions
PHP
MySQL
Apache
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Why Drupal?
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Why Drupal?
Flexible modular architecture
New Module
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Why Drupal?
Flexible modular architecture
Organization boundary support
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Why Drupal?
Flexible modular architecture
Organization boundary support
Strong community support
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Why Drupal?
Flexible modular architecture
Organization boundary support
Strong community support
Symmetry in organization
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19. Current System Architecture
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20. New System Architecture
THIS PROJECT
EXISTING
SYSTEM
Presentation layer
SDA Core
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21. New System Architecture
Drupal
User Interface
Logic to present data
PHP/HTML/JS/CSS
Presentation layer
SDA Core
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22. New System Architecture
Communication mechanism to interact with SDA Core
Presentation layer
SDA Core
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Implementation
Life Cycle
My Worklist
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Life Cycle
Display graphical view of project’s processes and activities
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Life Cycle
Display graphical view of project’s processes and activities
Link to the lower-level processes
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Life Cycle
Display graphical view of project’s processes and activities
Link to the lower-level processes
Display breadcrumb
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27. University of Houston Clear Lake
Life Cycle
Display graphical view of project’s processes and activities
Link to the lower-level processes
Display breadcrumb
Display Legend
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Life Cycle
Get project data from SDA core
Life Cycle
Presentation layer
SDA Core
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Life Cycle
Life Cycle Demo
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My Worklist
Display the work assigned for the user for that project in a tree format
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My Worklist
Get work items assigned to user from SDA core
My Worklist
Presentation layer
SDA Core
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My Worklist
My Worklist Demo
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Lessons Learned
Brainstorming
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Lessons Learned
Brainstorming
Team Work
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Lessons Learned
Brainstorming
Team Work
Google wave
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Conclusion
Positive results of feasibility study
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Conclusion
Positive results of feasibility study
Completed two modules
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Conclusion
Positive results of feasibility study
Completed two modules
Highly recommend Drupal for migration
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Questions?
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References
[1] Drupal
[2] Drupal
[3] Joomla
[4] Joomla
[5] Joomla CMS and Its Advantages
[6] Liferay
[7] Liferay
[8] PHP/Java Bridge
[9] Software Developer’s Assistant (SDA)
[10] XMLRPC
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For further queries contact
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