Subject: Minutes of Middleware project meting
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 20:55:30 +0100
From: Kris KOSTRO <Krzysztof.Kostro@cern.ch>
Organization: CERN
To: pssl-middleware-project@listbox.cern.ch

Present: J-J. Gras P. Charrue, F. Di Maio, F. Momal, M. Tyrrell, A.
Butterworth, V. Baggiolini, M. Clayton, J. Lewis, A. Risso, R. Martini,
M. Van den Eynden, K. Kostro

Project phases were presented to the team and approved.
The project is split in 3 Phases:
Phase I: Requirement capture & analysis, Technology evaluation,
Definition and implementation of test cases.
Phase II: Final architecture specification, Design and implementation.
Phase III: Integration of existing servers, Connecting existing
equipment.

The requirements for Phase III are part of Phase I !

The Milestone Plan for Phase I was presented. The individual milestones
were discussed and the deadline set for some of them. Only small
modifications are required.  A milestone M3a has been added between M2
and M3, to define a strategy on for the interconnection of our legacy
software.
Marc and Vito will update the milestone plan and include the deadlines.

J-J Gras asked for the SL/OP people to be included in the requirement
analysis. This is covered by the milestone R1 and R2 of the requirement
track.
Milestone T1 provoked questions of how the "knowledge of available
technology" can be dissiminated. Marc announced the seminar at EPFL
Lausanne on middleware techniques begin of March in which the core team
will participate. There is CORBA training offered at CERN (Kris,
Alessandro and Franck went to this one). The Middleware project web page
(http://hpslweb.cern.ch/pssl -> projects -> middleware) has links to
CORBA, DCOM and OPC sites.
The project team will organise a 2-3 hours seminar on middleware
technology and Java API. The tentative date is 19 of March.

Three main areas of work have been identified in the Phase I:
- Requirements
- Evaluation and choice od middleware technology
- Definition and implementation of test cases

These areas are partly independent with dependencies defined by the
graph of the milestone plan.

The preliminary composition of the teams which will concentrate on the
above subjects (any additional entries ale wellcome!):
- Requirement team: core team t.b.d. + J-J Gras, Pierre Charrue, Mark
Tyrrell, Andy Butterworth, Julian Lewis (Frederic Momal and Robin
Martini only for connecting their industrial systems).
- Technology evaluation/choice: Core team + Pedro Ribeiro (contacted
after the meeting)
- Test cases: core team t.b.d. + J-J Gras, Pierre Charrue, Marc Tyrrell,
Frederic Momal, Julian Lewis, Etienne Carlier (contacted before the
meeting).

Actions:
- Marc and Vito will update the Milestone Plan.
- Marc will send a requirements template to core team and requirement
team, Alessandro will send an IEEE note on requirements.
- The core team will meet Wed 18 Feb 9h00 @ PS to organise the future
work, especially requirement analysis.
- Core team will participate in the middleware seminar at EPFL 1-3
March.
- Core team will organise a short information seminar on middleware at
CERN. Planned date 19 of March at 9h00.

        Kris Kostro