2021 02/TBD - TBD UT

Attendees

Contact Information

• Doodle: 
• Zoom Details: 
  • Link: 
  • Pass: acs2021q3

Action Items from previous meeting:

• ACS Documentation
  • Unknown User (leonardo.baroncelli) repository with examples
  • Blog for specific topics weekly
    • Joseph Schwarz provided a list of initial topics
      
      • Hot-Swap Java components
      • ACS Service and Container daemons (plus how to configure them for CentOS 7 and 8)
      • Interface Repository and the role it plays, e.g., for the Object Explorer
      • Logging System design and use of Elastic Search in ALMA
      • Sampling System
      • Master Component (with example of its use)

Updates since last Meeting:

• 2021APR + 2021JUN + 2021AUG Release
• ACS Python 3 Porting

• ACS Changes

  • Obsolescence Management Roadmap

    • Java (24 upgrades)
    • Python (25 upgrades)
    • OmniORBpy (4.2.4)
    • astyle (3.1)
    • Recommendation to install doxygen and graphviz from O.S. (It's still installed along with ACS if not found 1.8.5 + 2.30.1)
    • Fixed ACE/TAO config-*.h files to be compatible with newer O.S.
    • oAW: No longer installing as a module, now we use the version provided by ACS Eclipse installation
  • C++ container initialization reduced (3 seconds sleep removed)
  • C++ clients can be restarted (unit testing)
  • Acssim setMethod/setMethodIF now receives fully-compliant Python code blocks
    • This may break some implementations that used to write the return value on the last line without actually putting "return ..."
  • Alternative XML Schema bindings for Java are being prepared using JAXB XJC technology
    • Both castor and jaxb bindings are created with the XSDBIND directive and are packaged in the same JAR file
    • If castor's code generated package is 'test.xx.yy', then xjc one is 'test.xx.yy.jaxb
  • ACS Maven artifacts now consider transitive dependencies

2021 Planning:

• Communication and Collaboration
  •  Docker Hub ACS Image
  •  Issue Tracking platform for the community
  • Confluence Page Access
  • Fork/Branches on public repository
  •  Slack as Community Chat
• Re-design Notification Channels
  • ActiveMQ Prototype
• BulkData
  • ZeroMQ Prototype
  • OpenDDS Implementation
• Obsolescence Management
• C++ Modernization Project
  • Logging system study, improvements and redesign plans

Other institutions plans and proposed topics

Any other business?

Conclusions/Action Items