perfsonar development work

[Slawomir Trzaszczka <>]

On Fri, 2009-12-04 at 15:27 +0100, Wiktor Procyk wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> in context of migration from psBase1 to psBase2 it is right time to stop
> maintain old WebAdmin using psBase1 and implement new WebAdmin. New
> WebAdmin offers much reduced functionality, but it is written from
> scratch so the code and used mechanisms are better designed and well
> structured. New WA so far doesn't offer testing configured via it
> services. It is possible to move proper part of the code responsible for
> testing, it is even possible to write it from beginning, but I think
> this functionality should be redesigned. Most developers of services
> using/cooperating with WA are here, locally at Poznan. I would like to
> share with you our common idea.
> 
> So far request for test is send by servlet WA to itself and then XML
> input data is sent using SOAP protocol to the service; service responses
> with XML output data and this data is compared to expected output - if
> this is equal - test is passed, if it differs - test result is negative.
> 
> We (I and rest developers from Poznan, I mean Sławek, Piotrek, Krzysztof
> and Błażej) think it would be better (and much more easier to implement
> and in consequence - more stable and bug proof) if WA would directly
> communicate with tested service servlet and request via HTTP offered by
> service
> selftest, so function of WebAdmin would be visualization/presentation
> obtained from the service selftest results. How do you see such idea?
> what are yours cogitations in this area? is this right direction of changes?
> 
> Best regards,
> Wiktor


I think WA should provide only easy way to configure service, self tests
or other elements should be provided by application. Self-test could be
easily implemented in java servlets in application. So WA would invoke
HTTP servlets.


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 Slawomir Trzaszczka                       
                                           
 Poznan Supercomputing & Networking Center 
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