------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SEAMLESS GROMIT | Version: 1.3.0 Release: April 2, 2010 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Copyright (c) 2009, The SEAMLESS Association. Please see the included license files for LEGAL statements and disclaimers. It can also be obtained from the website: http://www.seamlessassociation.org. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Introduction This is the source code for the SEAMLESS GROMIT module. "Gromit" is the server part of the SEAMLESS-IF web application. The client part is named "Wallace", and is written in Adobe Flex. Gromit provides Wallace with access to the SEAMLESS database. It uses the seamfaces (Java data classes generated from the ontology) and Hibernate to exchange data with the database. A set of transfer objects in Java and Actionscript (mostly generated by a code generator) are used to exchange data with the web client running in a browser. Transmitting data between server and client is done using Adobe BlazeDS and the AMF format for performance reasons. Gromit also uses Spring Framework functionality for dependency injection, AOP, database connections, servlets, etc. 2. Remarks for this version This component is fully functional. However take note that it is the result of the SEAMLESS IP research project and not developed as production or mission critical quality software. Many aspects can certainly be improved.Some major updating/refactoring is already in progress, which includes renaming of the packages from org.seamless_ip to org.seamless_if. This matches the step from the initial EU Integrated Project (ip) to the current SEAMLESS Association. In the future all packages should start with org.seamless_if. A rewrite of the job scheduler components for automated running of model chains is also in progress. Most of the code is finished and available in the services.scheduler package, but further testing and implementation needs to be done. 3. Available packages - org.seamless_if.services WORK IN PROGRESS: Scheduler service for automated running of model chains. - org.seamless_ip.core Core utility classes used in the component e.g. for creating copies of objects in the database. - org.seamless_ip.services.dao Collection of Data Access Objects, both interfaces and implementations. Follows the general Data Access Object design pattern. The DAO classes access the database to store and retrieve information packaged in the transfer objects (simple Java data classes). - org.seamless_ip.services.transferobjects Java data classes (mostly produced by a code generator) used by the DAO classes in the communication with the web client. 4. Building This component and its source code is provided as an Eclipse (3.5) compatible project, including all referenced libraries, project settings files and classpath definition. It should be no problem to get started building and using this library in the Eclipse IDE. An Ant build.xml file is also included for building the source code. To create documentation from the source code please run javadoc. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------