Special Topics Meeting on Weds, May 26, 2010

Agenda

As discussed in our last meeting, this week's DSpace Developers Meeting (Weds May 26) will be a Special Topics Meeting discussing the DSpace Services Framework. Mark Diggory will lead this discussion, and also give examples of how the Services Framework could be used in future development (particularly in the area of reloading configurations on-the-fly).

Homework: Before the meeting, you are expected to read the following:

• Mark Diggory's DSUG 09 Talk on DSpace Services: http://www.slideshare.net/mdiggory/dsug09-services-2255693
• DSpace Services Framework
  Optionally, you may also want to read:
• DSpace 2.0 Core Services
• DSpace 2.0 Modelling Services

As usual, this meeting will be held in the #duraspace IRC channel at 20:00 UTC. To determine your local time, check the world clock: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=20&min=0&sec=0&p1=0

This Special Topic Meeting will concentrate on DSpace Services Framework. The primary goals of this meeting are to:

1. Have open discussion, Q&A about the Services Framework (which has been backported into 1.6.x).
2. Try to come to a general consensus on how to use this Framework going forward.