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Integrating Drupal with Software Developers Assistance (SDA)

Integrating Drupal with Software Developers Assistance (SDA). Instructor:. Kwok-Bun Yue. Mentor:. Abbasi Dhilawala. Team # 1:. Aditya Macherla Arun Gupta Mahankali Shruti Damle Truyen Van Le Vishakha Kadam. Content. Introduction Limitations of SDA Why we choose Drupal ?

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Integrating Drupal with Software Developers Assistance (SDA)

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  1. Integrating Drupal with Software Developers Assistance (SDA) Instructor: Kwok-Bun Yue Mentor: AbbasiDhilawala Team # 1: Aditya Macherla Arun Gupta Mahankali Shruti Damle Truyen Van Le Vishakha Kadam

  2. Content • Introduction • Limitations of SDA • Why we choose Drupal? • System Architecture • Challenges and Pros/cons of communication Technique • How we are achieving the goals • How we are going to implement XML-RPC • High level block diagram • Future work/ summary • Q&A

  3. Introduction • Whatis Software Developers Assistance? • Engineering automation product that guides engineers through their project specific standard, processes and procedures

  4. Introduction • WhatisDrupal? • Open source web content management framework

  5. Introduction • What is the Project? • IntegratingDrupalwith SDA

  6. Limitations of existing system • Inter module communication • Has complex and huge modules: intertwined, cannot be separated with Liferay 5.2.3 used by system • Current system uses some of them e.g. out of 60 3-5 are used - consumes resources (memory, processor, hardware resources, software resources) • Does not have boundaries between organizations • Passing parameters to multiple portlets • Session management • Very difficult to upgrade to the newer versions • Does not have clean URL

  7. Why we choose Drupal? Still on the process of studying the feasibility of whether Drupal can replace LIFERAY? SDA

  8. Why we choose Drupal? Technical motivations: • Drupal can solve the above limitations of LIFERAY: • Provide boundaries between organizations • Passing parameters to multiple portlets • Especially upgrade to new version

  9. Why we choose Drupal? Technical issues: • And more than that, Drupal fulfills other requirements of SDA that LIFERAY can not • Support group (Organic group) • Time to start and build a module is pretty quick • Support Java backend: standardize API - XMLRPC • Very highly scalability and load balancing support

  10. Why we choose Drupal? Non - Technical motivation: • Drupal become more popular (Top 3) • Big organizations/firms are using Drupal • Whitehouse • US Department of Commerce • Continental Airline and United Airline Merger • Intel • Tietronix customers (including NASA) are switching to Drupal • Drupal – A free open source tools • Strong community including paid services

  11. System Architecture THIS PROJECT EXISTING SYSTEM

  12. System Architecture SDA Presentation - Drupal • Provide an UI to interact with the system • Include logic to present data to the users • No business or data access logics • PHP/HTML/JS/CSS

  13. System Architecture SDA Communications - XMLRPC • Provide an interface for Drupal to interact with SDA • Drupal plays XMLRPC client • SDA backend plays XMLRPC Server • Web Services – XMLRPC

  14. Challenges and Pros/cons of communication Techniques Challenges: • The current implementation uses Liferay, which supports Java • Drupal is PHP based and thus its integration with the backend Java business layer is a tricky part • There are two ways to achieve that: • Web Services (XMLRPC) • PHP/Java Bridge

  15. Challenges and Pros/cons of communication Techniques • What is XMLRPC? • What is PHP/Java Bridge?

  16. Challenges and Pros/cons of communication Techniques To choose between these two options we came up with some evaluation criteria

  17. How we are achieving the goals • Implement XMLRPC • Build custom modules in Drupal to replace the modules in Liferay and act as XMLRPC client • Build a custom class on top of SDA’s core modules and act as XMLRPC server

  18. SDA SDA Communication Module • This module will act as a communication layer between back-end SDA and its presentation layer • This module resides on top of SDA’s core java modules. This module contains a class called XMLRPCServer.java

  19. XMLRPCServer.java • XMLRPCServer.java contains following three methods: • XMLRPCServer • GetInitialProcessDetails • GetProcessDetails

  20. SVG file • 1. Entity • 2. Links to other entity SVG image 1. Color: fill 2. Links 3. Breadcrumb SDA View Drupal Module Output Input Input parameters/ arguments SDA Backend Communications Layer Web services-XMLRPC DB ParentID ChildID High level block diagram

  21. High level block diagram • Explanation: • Raw SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) files

  22. High level block diagram • The complete SVG image

  23. Future work/ summary • Analyze the possibility, pros and cons, and personnel skills for integration of SDA withDrupal over the current open source CMS likeLiferay • Implementtwo SDA modules Lifecycle, MyWorklist (J2EE based) in Drupal • Write the publication paper • More inclined to industrial case study • Focus on issues like migration, integration, use of multiple languages, and how to deal withlegacy system

  24. References • Tietronix website: www.tietronix.com • Drupal community: http://drupal.org • Drupal Developer: API http://api.drupal.org • XMLRPC standard: http://www.xmlrpc.com/ • W3C SVG Working Group: http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/ • www.google.com/images

  25. Q&A

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