Recent changes to feature-requests

Create code review "learning trails"

2009-12-18T16:32:12Z

Considering the source code as the primary documentation source, then multiple "learning trails" should be created, each with a starting point (a file), and a sequence of other points to visit. E.g. service layer trail, start in Service.java then go to ...

Find alternative to embedding all jars into tomcat-step

2009-10-22T11:35:34Z

See if there is any way to start apache tomcat referring to STEP_HOME/lib in an external location, specified by an environment variable.
This would allow easier upgrading of both servlet container and STEP libraries.

Confirm that tomcat-step package is replicable

2009-10-21T15:10:43Z

Confirm that tomcat-step package is replicable, i.e., its configuration files allow for easy configuration replication, using a text find-replace approach to change listening port, etc.

Add test for JAX-R

2009-10-19T17:11:30Z

Add a test for JAX-R registry use.
Possible location: src_test/test-jax/r

STEP Libraries located through environment variable

2009-08-14T14:50:52Z

Instead of locating STEP libraries (lib) through relative paths, the STEP lib location should be specified using an environment variable, akin to CATALINA_HOME.
This allows several projects to share the same libraries. It also makes it easier to keep libraries out of version control repositories.
One disadvantage is that it makes it harder to have different versions of STEP running in the same machine.

The proposed name for the environment variable is STEP_HOME

Enable mock mode using System property

2009-07-06T13:13:26Z

Instead of relying on a configuration file to choose between Hibernate and Mock mode, use a System property instead. It is a more IDE friendly way to run automated tests, and is easily supported by Ant scripts and the Eclipse IDE

If system property is absent, no mock.
If system property is present and true, use mock mode.

The property name should be "scoped" with the complete package name.

Redesign Service class hierarchy

2009-06-08T16:12:58Z

The current Service class hierarchy is broken. The LocalService name has historical reasons based on the first ideas about local and distributed transactions implementation. Being local is not the fundamental feature of a LocalService. The fundamental feature is participating in a work-of-unit (transaction).

See COM+ transaction types for a possible Service classification.

Define new Service class for web service client STEP applications?

Should extensible services implement a marker interface (e.g. implements Extensible)?

Automatic session context

2009-06-08T16:02:14Z

Implement an automatic and implicit session context for STEP framework extensions, based on an HTTP request scope, using a Java Servlet Filter