Friday, November 03, 2006

Status Report for 10/25/2006 -- 11/01/2006

Summary of previous work before this week

1. Install CIMA portal (with IUMSC) manually

  • Install all third part software(Java, Ant, Tomcat, Gridsphere)
  • Install CIMA portal
    • Deploy and configure “iframe portlet”
    • Get the 3 CIMA portlets(cimadminprj, showmysamples, XRaySampleData) installed in my GS portal and configure them
    • Make a tab(IUMSC) that has the following 3 sub-menus: Current Status, Public Sample portlet, and About

2. Install the "internal" build system that in a single step does all of the following:

  • Provide an organizational directory structure for the project, including third party tar files for Gridsphere, Tomcat, Ant
  • Install (unpacks, builds) all third party software(Ant, Tomcat, Gridsphere) from tars.
  • Build and deploy all of the CIMA portlets.
  • Automatically customize Gridsphere to have the look and feel, layout, color scheme, and logo of the CIMA portal.
  • Build anonymous user views and IUMSC tab.

This is based on Apache Ant.

Progress of this week

1. Fix many small bugs in earlier deliverable

2. Extend earlier deliverable of "internal" build system to include all CIMA sites (Purdue, ChemMATCars, Minnesota, Myers, JCU,CSAF)

3. Write a simple user’s guide to Kia and let her check the CIMA portal built by this one-step process

  • User Guide
  • Package
    • All installation files
    • CIMA portlets
    • Third party software

Discussion

1. Checks CIMA code out from CVS/SVN

2. Create a test user account in Ant script

Future work

1. Get feedback from Kia to improve the installation process

2. Fix bugs in the installation process

3. Try to solve the problems described above in Discussion section


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