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Amsterdam

Amsterdam

Aug 25, 2007

Information

The cafe bootcamps are intensive day long workshops consisting of presentations and exercises designed to help developers get up to speed developing tools/apps for the Sakai framework. The bootcamps are also intended as a way to present new development technologies and best practices and techniques to developers who are experienced in Java and Sakai development. There is a joint session at the end of the bootcamp for UI designers and developers.

Attendees

  • Prerequisites - required setup for participant computers to make the sessions as productive as possible. If you're having trouble, contact the sakai dev list for help.

  • No sign up necessary! Just show up (please be on time).

Amsterdam Programmer's Cafe Agenda, Monday June 11th, 2007:

  • Official conference schedule

  • Workshop Prerequisites

  • Setup your laptop for the workshop: Development Environment Setup Walkthrough

    • You should do this BEFORE the workshop

    • You will require 2 extra steps for this exercise

      • Check out the entity broker package from https://source.sakaiproject.org/contrib/caret/entitybroker/tags/1.0 into your sakai root

      • Add the CARET Maven repository to your Maven build.properties -

        maven.repo.remote=http://source.sakaiproject.org/maven/,http://mirrors.dotsrc.org/maven,http://www2.caret.cam.ac.uk/maven

  • Find more help with writing Sakai apps: Sakai Programmer Manual

  • Get the Sakai cafe distribution from SVN here:
    https://source.sakaiproject.org/svn/cafe/branches/2-3-x/

  • Sakai App Builder

  • RSF Blog Tool Exercise

  • Evaluate this session

  • Flickr images (programmerscafe07ams)

Session 1: (9:00) Welcome and Intro to Sakai development

  • Welcome to Amsterdam Bootcamp

  • Sakai development getting started

  • Sakai application (tool) structure

  • Sakai App Builder

  • Inherit and review html templates from designer

  • Inherit and review database structure from DBA

  • Write HBM files based on database structure

  • Write model classes (entity POJOs) based on HBM file schema

  • Presenter: @Former user (Deleted)

Session 2: (10:00) Persistence

  • Data Access layer

    • Review of GenericDAO capabilities

    • Write DAO Java interface in api module, and demonstrate starting implementation by extending GenericDAO base class

    • Create DAO stub implementation

    • Construct DAO test data

    • Write DAO tests

    • Write DAO implementation

    • Add/update spring bean config files (components.xml, etc.)

    • Run dao tests

  • Presenter: @Former user (Deleted)

Break (10:40)

Session 3: (10:55) Logic

  • Logic layer

    • Write logic API methods in api module to be called from tool

    • Demonstrate calling a DAO method from a logic API method

    • Create logic layer stub implementation

    • Create logic layer tests

    • Write logic layer implementation

    • Run logic tests

  • Presenter: @Former user (Deleted)

Session 4: (11:30) Working on the view layer (RSF)

  • Implementing the starting view (HomeProducer)

    • Eyeing over the template for rsf:ids - leaf and branch tags

    • Simple components and producers (UIInput, UIOutput)

    • I18N in RSF (formatted dates, UIMessage)

  • Presenter: @Former user (Deleted)

Lunch: (12:40) Please plan to be back to the session on time
Special Session: Developer involvement in Sakai

  • Presenter: @Former user (Deleted)

Session 4: (2:00)

  • Multiple views and templates, the ViewParameters system

    • Setting up file templates and injection for the navigation bar (NavBarRenderer)

  • The EntityBroker and ViewParameters

    • Rendering a public RSS feed

  • Presenter: @Former user (Deleted)

Session 5: (3:00) RSF and storage

  • The main Blog view

    • Setting up an RSF form, UICommand controls and parameters

    • Setting up OTP locators for the backing model

  • Presenter: @Former user (Deleted)

Combo Session: (4:30) Combined U-Camp and Programmer's Cafe Session

  • UI and developer related conversation

  • Presenter: @Former user (Deleted) and company

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