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Scope

  • Discuss the ACS wish-list from the community.
  • Input from a google form and discussions during the workshop.

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  • getTemplate improvement: The interface of the "getTemplate" CLI tool is very strange. No tab completion, no help, a GUI, which is actually a commandline in disguise... strange.

Performance enhancement

  • "acsStart" and "acsStop" optimization. They take forever. This , this should not need so long. Can we improve that? (I was told this is due to a bunch of timeouts strewn all over the ACS codebase, which are not necessary.)
  • "getDynamicComponent" is a blocking call, that waits for the remote component to be actually loaded. This is not necessary, it could just create the "objref" and return right away indepnend independent on how long the component needs to start. Can we fix that?
  • Better handling of attributes subscription, particularly when client disconnect

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ACS technologies you'd think needs a replacement (please indicate the reason: obsolescence, security, ...)

  • DDS (see yesterday discussion)
  • Old-style makefile
  • Use of modern unit-test frameworks instead of TAT
  • DDS (see yesterday discussion)
  • How long can we maintain Java SWING UIs? 
  • Not urgent, but alternatives to CORBA should be studied 

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