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- | This page is designed to capture ongoing discussion about possible moves to a new framework on which to base the next version of Sahana. The intention will be to construct a matrix of identified requirements and capabilities against the frameworks to better assess the choices in an objective manner. Please add anything that you feel require. | + | ====== |
- | ===== Goal ===== | + | **//This page has been reformatted. The previous discussion was [[dev: |
- | To identify the most suitable underlying framework upon which Sahana 2.0 should be built. | + | |
- | ===== Requirements | + | ====== Introduction ====== |
- | The requirements section is designed to capture | + | Throughout early 2010 the Sahana Community has engaged in an open discussion of potential frameworks for future program development. |
- | ==== High Level ==== | + | We invite anyone with relevant information to share it with the Community. |
- | Following | + | |
- | ==== Detailed Capabilities ==== | + | If you would like to provide |
- | (intended | + | |
- | If possible, please | + | |
- | === Database | + | ====== Goal ====== |
- | * [[http://en.wikipedia.org/ | + | Host a structured discussion within the Sahana community to evaluate PHP frameworks for future Sahana development. |
- | * [[http:// | + | |
- | * Data versioning | + | |
- | * Audit trail support | + | |
- | * Database abstraction | + | |
- | === Quality Assurance | + | ====== Framework Requirements ====== |
- | | + | This section is intended to document high level requirements for potential frameworks. |
- | * Error and Exception Handling | + | |
- | * Security | + | |
- | * Auditing | + | |
- | * Logging | + | |
- | * Backup | + | |
- | * Unit Testing - underlying framework should have unit testing for QA purposes | + | |
+ | **Wiki Best Practises** | ||
+ | Please keep these tips in mind when adding new criteria: | ||
+ | * Categorize the requirement | ||
+ | * Link to an external site for additional information if relevant or necessary | ||
+ | * Add additional details for any generic or easily mis-interpreted terms. | ||
- | ==== Working List ==== | + | Feel free to copy this text and use it to add any new categories: |
- | (this is a working list that we will try and categorise and move into sections above) | + | < |
- | * Web Services SOAP/ RSS / REST | + | ===== Category Header (name your new category here) ===== |
- | * Strong Web2.0 Support (Builtin JQuery, Mochikit, Xajax etc etc) | + | * Describe the essentials of this category using two spaces |
- | * Easily integratable with existing Portal Frameworks, such as Yahoo Pipes, iGoogle. ( I think this would go with web services & REST) (Optional) | + | * For bullets |
- | * Mobile Device Support (Optional) | + | </code> |
- | * Easy installation | + | |
- | * Less bulky. | + | |
- | * More modularity | + | |
- | * MVC ? | + | |
- | * Should we go with SOA ? | + | |
- | * Scalability and performance. | + | |
- | * Large developer ecosystem - e.g. choose a well supported framework | + | |
- | * Less complex framework, so that the learning curve is minimized, hence will reduce the customization time by new users/developers in immediate deployments. | + | |
- | * Strong geospatial capabilities | + | |
- | * Work flow engine | + | |
- | * Temporal database ? | + | |
+ | ===== Data/ORM ===== | ||
+ | * Database Engine Support | ||
+ | * ORM Engine Support | ||
+ | * Object Views | ||
+ | * Transaction History with rollback | ||
+ | * Auditing and Statistics | ||
+ | * Custom Data Types | ||
+ | * Triggers and constraints | ||
+ | ===== Development ===== | ||
+ | * Error Handling/ | ||
+ | * Uniform Exception Framework | ||
+ | * Proper/ | ||
+ | * Transparency | ||
+ | * Verbosity easily transfigurable | ||
+ | * QA/Testing | ||
+ | * Usability/ | ||
+ | * Custom test definition | ||
+ | * Integration (automation) | ||
+ | ===== Documentation ===== | ||
+ | * External (by the framework' | ||
+ | * Quality | ||
+ | * Depth/ | ||
+ | * Are their published reference texts? | ||
+ | * How current is the documentation? | ||
+ | * Integration on framework developers site | ||
+ | * Wiki generation | ||
+ | * Internal (within the framework itself) | ||
+ | * Function/ | ||
+ | * Generated code has meaningful in line documentation | ||
+ | ===== Administration ===== | ||
+ | * Security | ||
+ | * Framework' | ||
+ | * Long term support and highly stable framework versions offered | ||
+ | * Framework' | ||
+ | * Testing | ||
+ | * Support for 3rd party validation tools | ||
+ | * Built in code validation (ex. pen testing) | ||
+ | * ACL support/ | ||
+ | * Server security integration with 3rd party authorization (ex. Apache) | ||
+ | ===== Features ===== | ||
+ | *Standards Validation Library | ||
+ | *ISO | ||
+ | *IEEE | ||
+ | *W3C compliance | ||
+ | *XML | ||
+ | *XHTML (version & strictness) | ||
+ | *WCAG | ||
+ | *Other | ||
+ | *Other standards bodies | ||
+ | *Custom validation library support (eg, Regex) | ||
+ | *Code sanitation | ||
+ | *Modularity | ||
+ | *Ease of development of modular applications | ||
+ | *Supports template modules for rapid development of additional modules | ||
+ | *Ability enable / disable independent of removal | ||
+ | *Versioning & compatibility support (eg, works with Sahana v 1.0 --> 1.5.x) | ||
+ | *Upgradability | ||
+ | *Client support | ||
+ | *Browser support | ||
+ | *Graceful Degradation (ex: browser with no javascript or other libraries) | ||
+ | *Not dependent on AJAX | ||
+ | *Web Services | ||
+ | *SOAP | ||
+ | *JSON | ||
+ | *ATOM | ||
+ | *REST | ||
+ | *Community support & interest in RESTful services & API | ||
+ | *RSS | ||
+ | *Custom | ||
+ | *Geospacial Capabilities | ||
+ | *Standards | ||
+ | *Engines | ||
+ | *Modular data abstraction (multiple dbs for different purposes) | ||
+ | *3rd party data provider support | ||
+ | *Database Migration/ | ||
+ | *Features | ||
+ | *How does it compare to Rails RAKE? | ||
+ | *Templating | ||
+ | *Support for multiple template engines | ||
+ | *Support for a number of pre-defined template styles within a single app | ||
+ | *Ease of development of templates | ||
+ | *Template inheritance (do changes to parent templates reflect in the children) | ||
+ | *Template flexibility | ||
+ | *Performance | ||
+ | *Statistics & conclusions | ||
+ | *Test bed specification | ||
+ | *Relevant software versions | ||
+ | *Date of testing | ||
+ | *Tester / reporter | ||
+ | *Scalability | ||
+ | *Statistics & conclusions | ||
+ | *Test bed specification | ||
+ | *Relevant software versions | ||
+ | *Date of testing | ||
+ | *Tester / report | ||
+ | ===== Optimization/ | ||
+ | *Caching features | ||
+ | *Indexing | ||
+ | *Automatic / trained index features | ||
+ | *Manual tuning | ||
+ | *Options for pre-computing data | ||
+ | *Other efficiency features | ||
+ | ===== Installation ===== | ||
+ | *Requirements | ||
+ | *Resource requirements | ||
+ | *Complexity/ | ||
+ | *Tools / libraries needed for installation | ||
+ | *Packaging | ||
+ | *How are updates handled? | ||
+ | *Language Support | ||
+ | *Out-of-box OS support | ||
+ | *Red-Hat | ||
+ | *Ubuntu Server LTS | ||
+ | *Suse Linux Enterprise Server | ||
+ | *Windows Server 2008 | ||
+ | *Licensing | ||
+ | ====== Potential Frameworks ====== | ||
+ | Each of these pages links to a potential frameworks evaluation page stub. Please feel free to flesh out the page for any framework that you have tested or have knowledge of to facilitate conversation with the rest of the Community. | ||
+ | If you would like to add an additional framework for discussion, please use [[dev: | ||
- | ===== Framework Options ===== | + | |
- | These are sorted alphabetically. | + | * [[dev:Drupal7FrameworkEval|Drupal 7]] |
- | | + | * [[dev:ezComponentsFrameworkEval|ezComponents]] |
- | * [[http:// | + | * [[dev:KohanaFrameworkEval|Kohana]] |
- | * Drupal 7 (PHP, no decent web link yet) | + | * [[dev:SymfonyFrameworkEval|Symfony]] |
- | * [[http:// | + | * [[dev:ZendFrameworkEval|Zend]] |
- | * [[http:// | + | ====== Discussion ====== |
- | * [[http:// | + | Please feel free to use this section for discussion and comments. Be sure to sign your post using the button all the way to the right on the menu above. Also, please do not remove anyone else's relevant comments. |
- | * [[http:// | + | |
- | * [[http:// | + | |
- | * [[http:// | + | |
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- | **[[http:// | + | |
- | ===== Specific Framework Notes ===== | ||
- | Additional pages with links specific to each framework. More detail can be captured on these pages. | ||
- | * [[fk_drupal7|Drupal 7 notes]] | ||
- | * [[fk_geodjango|GeoDjango notes]] |