[Architecture] GPII realtime system moved to "Kettle"

[Colin Clark]

Hi Antranig,

Congratulations to Yura, you, and the other GPII contributors to Kettle for your hard work. Extending Infusion's development idioms to the server has been a key goal of the Fluid community for a while, and it's great to finally have this modern, Node.js and Express-based infrastructure available!

Colin

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Colin Clark
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On 2013-08-15, at 9:09 PM, Antranig Basman <Antranig.Basman at colorado.edu> wrote:

> I've just committed to the universal and windows repositories branches drawn up by Yura which separate out the core server-side components of the GPII realtime architecture, into a dedicated project known as "Kettle" - this project is housed in github at
> https://github.com/fluid-project/kettle
> Issues will be tracked in JIRA at http://issues.fluidproject.org/browse/KETTLE
> 
> This is largely a repository reorganisation, and the underlying codebase has only changed in a minimal way to allow the node (npm) modules requested by a server configuration to be self-contained. Documentation for configuring servers and apps remains at http://wiki.gpii.net/index.php/Configuration although this documentation will shortly be migrated into the Kettle space. However, all outstanding pull requests to all GPII repositories will need to be updated to merge with the new project structure.
> 
> Kettle, a server-side JavaScript platform, is a project that Fluid has been interested in for a number of years. The current codebase is unrelated to previous versions we have experimented with, but has simply been factored out from the "universal" repository of GPII since we judged that the feature set and API have become sufficiently stable to merit a dedicated project. A notable difference in approach to previous versions is that we have given up attempts to simulate a full jQuery environment on the server, together with AJAX-compliant wrappers for server-side I/O - instead we have copied just the minimal jQuery definitions sufficient to execute the infusion framework. In addition, this instantiation of Kettle is based on the popular "express" platform, to which we defer as a base library handling request routing and some server primitives.
> 
> Currently the linux repository requires to be updated to its version of the GPII-116 branch, I'd like to request a volunteer to test and push in order to bring all 3 main repos into sync.
> 
> Cheers,
> Antranig.
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