Thursdays 7th of October 2009, the first Collaviz TechDay has been done at the INRIA, Rocquencourt.
The objective of this TechDay was to present in details the proposed architectural choices and software developments already done regarding the Collaviz middleware. These results correspond to the work performed in the frames of WP1 and WP6.
One of the most important issues of the TechDay was the transfer of the expertise to the other project partners, through a technical training course focusing on the software development aspects.
The selected key technologies, like Java, Tomcat, Seam/Richfaces, Neodatis, Metro, Guice, and JNI, on the one hand, and the developed framework itself, on the other hand, have been presented and discussed. A large part of the training course was based on a practical work, where the attendees performed the complete exposition as service of an example of tailored software module. This pratical work has validated the whole approach and the possibility for non-expert to expose as services software components at a reasonable cost.
Last the production chain, including a consistent set of continuous integration and quality control tools, like Maven, Hudson and Sonar, has been presented.
About ten attendees were present to this TechDay, representation most of the technical WPs.
The TechDay has been hosted by Scilab Digiteo in charge of the WP2 of Collaviz. In the future, TechDays will be opened to the public.