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
  • Run the app builder plugin to generate the basic structure for the RSF Blog Tool Exercise
• 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: Aaron Zeckoski

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: Aaron Zeckoski

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: Aaron Zeckoski

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: Antranig Basman

Lunch: (12:40) Please plan to be back to the session on time

Special Session: Developer involvement in Sakai

• Presenter: Peter A. Knoop

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: Antranig Basman

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
  • OneTruePath.png
• Presenter: Steven Githens

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

• UI and developer related conversation
• Presenter: Colin Clark and company