[sakai-core-team] Fwd: [Building Sakai] Java 8

[Noah Botimer]

Pretty sure no one would argue that there are more standard ways to deal with these issues now.

However, these form a sort of leaky API boundary. The HTTP interface and XML and JSON that exposed by /direct (via reflectutils and generic-dao) have their own flavor. It's not quite JAXB/JAX-RS, it's not quite XStream.

Regardless of other options, these libs are intimately responsible for the nature and detail of an external API. It might be rather difficult to replicate it with other libs. A "v2" API is also challenging because many of the DTOs are defined in the providers -- i.e., lots of non-trivial translations outside the entities that is somewhat coupled to the libs.

I've long been a proponent of pushing these DTOs/presenters back toward the model and using vanilla JAX-RS to expose a v2 API, but that would be a big project in totality. I wonder if a few bits and pieces could prove it out and pave the path in case desire and resource found each other -- or maybe Keitai did some of that?

Thanks,
-Noah

On Feb 12, 2015, at 3:16 PM, Steve Swinsburg wrote:

> IIRC these tools are used by projects other than Sakai. I cant see many upgrades happening to them, and IMHO we should move away from them as they complicate things that are now standardised, but forking sounds like the simplest option here (if no response).
> 
> On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 6:11 AM, Charles Severance <csev at umich.edu> wrote:
> If we were going to "fork" why not just move it into Sakai's repo and then it just tracks along with all our releases.  BTW I might say the same for GenericDao.
> 
> /Chuck
> 
> On Feb 12, 2015, at 12:09 PM, Sam Ottenhoff <ottenhoff at longsight.com> wrote:
> 
>> I also asked Aaron.  I would give him the weekend and then if no response, let's fork and move to Github.
>> 
>> On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 12:06 PM, Kirschner, Beth <bkirschn at umich.edu> wrote:
>> I believe I have Sakai building & running with Java 8 -- the only outstanding issue is reflectutils. I've attached a patch to Aaron's google svn repo, and also sent him an email to his gmail address, but haven't heard anything back. I wonder if we should move this dependency into github? 
>> 
>> Thoughts?
>> - Beth
> 
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