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Kuali Rice: General Overview

Learn about Kuali Rice, a middleware layer for administrative applications, its components, and the value they add to developers. Explore KSB, KNS, KEW, KEN, and KIM functionalities in this detailed overview.

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Kuali Rice: General Overview

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  1. Kuali Rice: General Overview Brian McGough Kuali Rice Project Manager Kuali Lead Architect Director, Enterprise Software, IU May 13, 2008

  2. Agenda • Mission • Why did we decide to build Rice • Rice components brief overview • Acronym Familiarization • What’s coming next

  3. Kuali Rice Mission • First and foremost to provide a consistent development framework and common middleware layer for Kuali Foundation based applications to leverage

  4. Who Cares? • The users? • Implementing intuitions? • The kuali foundation? • Partners? • Commercial Affiliates? • Programmers? • Designers? • Functional experts? Maybe We All Do?

  5. Thinking Outside of the Wok • Most administrative applications have a common needs for: • Screen Rendering/input • Data Validation & Saving • Workflow based processes • Business Rules • Integration with other systems

  6. What is Rice? • Kuali Rice is the sum of its parts • KSB (Kuali Service Bus) • KNS (Kuali Nervous System) • KEW (Kuali Enterprise Workflow) • KEN (Kuali Enterprise Notification) • KIM (Kuali Identity Management)

  7. What do all these pieces of rice have in common? • By themselves they don’t do much • Leveraged in a context to add value • What kinds of context? • Business Administration Apps • Student Apps • Research Apps • Arbitrary data collection Apps

  8. How do these add value? • Shared consistent solutions: • Allow developers to focus on business functionality rather than how to achieve it technically. • Allow for re-use so that the code base remains as small and maintainable as possible • Example: On the Ford F-150, you have all kinds of options, but all models re-use many of the same parts and all look very similar

  9. KSB Overview - The Goals • Enable applications and services deployed on the bus to interact with other applications and services • Provide (a)synchronous communication • Provide flexible security • Provide Quality of Service (QoS) • Keep it simple (light weight)

  10. KSB • A common registry of services • Lists all services on the bus and how they can be connected • Through simple Spring configuration, Java based services can be “exported” from a rice enabled application, which is then ready to be consumed by another application

  11. KSB • A common resource loading layer that provides access to services (bus or local) • Services can be local to the application, in which case the bus is short circuited • Services can be remote, in which case the bus is leveraged to ascertain the service endpoint • For a closer look - http://ksb.kuali.org

  12. KNS Overview • Provides reusable code, shared services, integration layer, and a development strategy • Provides a common look and feel through screen drawing framework • A document (business process) centric model with workflow as a core concept

  13. KNS Overview Cont. • More Core Concepts / Features • Transactional documents • Maintenance documents • Inquires • Lookups • Rules • Questions • Data dictionary

  14. KEW Overview • Facilitates routing and approval of business processes throughout an organization • Provides re-usable routing rule creation which defines how business processes should be routed • Provides hooks for client applications to handle workflow lifecycle events of business processes • Provides route log functionality for auditing and other purpouses

  15. KEW Overview Cont. • End users interact with central workflow GUIs for all client applications • Document Search: Allows users to search for documents (business process transactions) • Action List: One place to go to find all documents that you must take action on

  16. KEN Overview • Works with the action list to provide a single place for all university related communications • Workflow items come from KEW • Non-workflow items from KEN • Non-workflow example items • Overdue library book • A concert on campus • Graduation checklists for seniors

  17. KEN Overview Cont. • Provides a secure and controlled environment for notifying the masses • Eliminate sifting through email • Communication broker which provides any combination of action list, text messages, email, etc... • Audit trail just as in KEW

  18. KIM Overview • Consistent service interfaces used by all Kuali apps • Leverages KNS and KEW to provide a reference implementation out of the box • Flexibility for dynamic attribute associations with IdM entities (persons, groups, roles, etc) • Pluggable support for Internet2 (Grouper, Signet, etc) products or other IDM tools

  19. KIM Overview Cont. • Basic concepts • Namespace • Person • Group • Permissions • Roles • Qualified Roles

  20. Kim Overview Cont.

  21. What’s Next? Looking to the Future… • Rice components will piggy back on each other • KEW and KEN will use KNS to draw screens, etc. • KIM retrofitted back into Rice in 0.9.4 release • Standards • JPA for data persistence (underway) • JSR 168/286 portlets for user interfaces (portals) • BPEL for process orchestration • WS-* support • Easier configuration and turnkey upgrades • Light weight service interfaces (WSDL, XSD) • Open source ESB replacement for KSB

  22. Kuali Rice - Current Status • Public beta version 0.9.2.1 available at http://rice.kuali.org --> Download • Rice 0.9.3 is in development and early testing • Shipping with built in mysql support • Rice 0.9.4 scope is being planned • Rice 1.0 expected mid next year

  23. The Rice Interactive Diagram • Available at http://rice.kuali.org • Click anywhere on the diagram to begin • Click on any component for details

  24. About the website • The main Rice web site • http://rice.kuali.org • Sign up for our public mailing list • Access to our wiki: roadmap, project plans, documentation, etc • Documentation is a weakness

  25. The Rice Team • Current Core Contributors • Brian McGough - Indiana University • Aaron Godert - Cornell University • Nate Johnson - Indiana University • Eric Westfall - Indiana University • David Elyea - Indiana University • Aaron Hamid - Cornell University • Chi-Thanh Dang - University of Arizona • Past Contributors • John Fereira - Cornell University • Phillip Berres - University of Southern California • Ryan Kirkendall - Indiana University • Scott Battaglia - Rutgers University • Tom Clark - Indiana University

  26. Future Contributors

  27. Wrap Up • The mission • Why Build Rice • General introduction to rice components • Acronym Familiarization • What’s coming next

  28. That’s it! • Q & A

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