Sakai Conditional Release Developer's Guide

Motivation

Design

The first design attempt produced a plan for a system that would encapsulate into a Rule arbitrarily many queries to arbitrarily many Sakai services. In this way, if a particular resource were protected by a Rule, accessing the resource could cause a request to the GradebookService, another request to ContentHostingService, and so on. This design was deemed too chatty for reasonable performance in the Resources tool, which must conform to many of the performance characteristics of a file system.

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