SGHE Summit – Project Horizon Technical Overview

SGHE Summit – Project Horizon Technical Overview – Bob Rullo (@bobrullo)

* power in Moscone West went out just as Bob started his talk. He did a great job working through his presentation with no slides! Great job, Bob!

SGHE Summit – Project Horizon Technical Overview

- needs Oracle 11gR1 database, Oracle Weblogics App Server, Java 6, Grails 1.1
- moving from Banner INB forms to new Horizon (Aurora UI) architecture
- need to migrate CRUD and transaction validation, field level validation (UI centric validation)

Grails Architecture
- a controller handles requests and talks to services to provide a response (data back to the user)
- blocks and fields map to the domain model like a row in a relational table
- field level validation moves to the view as do the canvases and windows – AJAX based

- leveraging automation techniques – by gathering metadata in the Banner Db and create a domain object
- can generate 80 to 90% of the domain models with these tools

- services are also being generated as well as the UI – where are fields located and how do we navigate between them

- we will be allowed access to these automation tools for our custom code and modifications
- look at providing us preview releases to get familiar on how things work and provide feedback to SGHE

- test early and often approach – huge increase in unit tests 100 to over 1000 = better quality
- our people need to learn GRAILS, java, groovy skills as well as spring and hibernate, still using PL/SQL apis
** SGHE please provide us a VM spec for a sample sandbox application

Resource Oriented Architecture – RESTful architecture allows us to extend our Open Digital Campus

More sessions …IT Lounge on Tuesday at 4pm

Related posts:

1. SGHE Summit – Banner Enterprise Identity Management (BEIS)
2. SGHE Summit – Electronic Banner Access Request (eBAR) Workflow
3. SGHE Summit – Millennial, Metrics and the New Media
4. SGHE Summit – An Efficient Means for IT Planning
5. SGHE Summit – Plenary The Global Campus – Higher Education goes International