CDM Library Development Resources¶

This page holds information and resources for developing the CDM Library. For a general introcution to the CDM Library and basic setup instructions please see: http://cybertaxonomy.eu/cdmlib

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• Table of contents
• CDM Library Development Resources
  • Releases
  • CDM Internals
    • Authentication, authorization, access control
    • Searching
    • cdmlib-remote - RESTful services
    • cdmlib-remote-webapp
  • cdm-vaadin - CDM Vaadin UI
  • Conventions & Policies
  • Tests (writing / running)
  • Debugging
  • Discussion (historic)
  • External Resources / Links
    • Hibernate
    • Spring 2.0 Framework
    • Domain Models
      • Property Change
    • Useful Patterns
    • Aspect Oriented Programming

Releases¶

• How To do a Cdm Platform Release
• CDM Release, Versioning & Branch Policy

CDM Internals¶

• Transactions in the CDM library
• CdmEntityInitalization
• CdmLibraryCaveats
• Rank Specific Rootnodes of Classifications
• HowTo Create a Term Vocabulary
• TransmissionEngineDistribution

Authentication, authorization, access control¶

• Cdm authorisation and access control - security permissions etc
• HibernateSpringAndRowlevelSecurity

Searching¶

• CdmLibraryFreetextSearch

cdmlib-remote - RESTful services¶

• CdmServerReadWriteRest
• REST API reference, Object Boundaries, Localization, Content Negotiation, Character Encoding
• Bean/Entity Initialization
• On the serialization of CDM entities in the cdmlib-remote RESTful services
• On RDF responses for cdmlib-remote RESTful services

cdmlib-remote-webapp¶

• cdmlib-remote-webapp configuration and bootstrapping

cdm-vaadin - CDM Vaadin UI¶

• VaadinNotes
• Vaadin Developer Guide

Conventions & Policies¶

• CdmLibraryConventions
• EclipsePreferencesforTeams

Tests (writing / running)¶

• IntegrationTests - Testing java code using Maven and Unitils
• IntegrationTests - how to write tests and how to generate test data for them

Debugging¶

• How to debug leaking C3P0 connections

Discussion (historic)¶

• CdmBrainstorm - problems & ideas for the future of the CDM

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External Resources / Links¶

Hibernate¶

• Hibernate works with most current RDBMS. See supported databases
• On CascadeType.DELETE and CascadeType=DELETE_ORPHAN

Spring 2.0 Framework¶

We use the Spring 2.0 framework to develop the library and keep the coupling of components low.

• Spring2.0 Documentation
• Introduction to the Spring Framework
• Die Rückkehr der POJOs. Das Spring-Framework: leichtgewichtiges Komponentenmodell als Alternative zu EJB

Domain Models¶

• Domain Models and Validation. An Architectural Discussion
• Avoiding anemic domain models with Hibernate
• Business Object Pattern
• AnemicDomainModel Anti Pattern

Property Change¶

• http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2004/06/02/desktop.html
• http://www.javalobby.org/java/forums/t19476.html

Useful Patterns¶

• ApplicationService Pattern

Aspect Oriented Programming¶

We use AspectJ to implement the change property crosscutting concern:

• AspectJ
  • http://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2005/12/15/writing-mixins-with-aop.html
• JBoss AOP
  • http://www.damnhandy.com/javabean-aspect/
• Spring AOP
  • http://forum.springframework.org/archive/index.php/t-13293.html
  • http://forum.springframework.com/viewtopic.php?t=301