Have I ever mentioned that I have way TOO much to do? Anyway, I did quite a bit of good work this week in preparation for DevJam in Atlanta but as I get my gear together and wait for the guys to pick me up in the next hour or so I realize just how much I have left.
I started last week with the hopes of putting together a series of blog entries on using REST as the OpenNMS Web technology of the future. Unfortunately, as it always is with programming, I just wasn’t able to get it all finished. I did discover a TOTALLY cool API for calling RESTful services for Java. This API is actually part of the Jersey project that I am using for the server side. I know its foolish to think I’ll get a lot of work done on the drive down to Atlanta, but maybe I will. The main things I really need to do to help move DevJam along are
- Move OpenNMS Trunk to springframework 2.5. This will make some of the RESTful work and other development work much easier
- Decide how I’m going to integrate the Jersey servlet into the OpenNMS. Should I make an entirely new webapp or should I make just make it /opennms/rest? That will definitely need to be decided before I get there? (I think I’ve decided just be writing this. Any bets on which it will be?)
- Create a list of the ‘Resources’ that will be represented in the web UI and assign URLs to them. This one is probably the most important because it goes modeling data to the team and you all know how I feel about modeling. I can probably get away with just a reasonable subset of this but there really needs to be a sane description of what kinds of things the OpenNMS app shows and what the standard web address for them is.
That seem like too much to do on the drive to Atlanta? Probably. Have I ever mentioned that I have way TOO much to do?
Anyway! See you at DevJam!