Hello World! - Working at the 26c3

Our gift for you: the fist version of the DispatchCargoProcess

The DispatchCargoProcess is the central process on "business level" orchestrating all activities required on an arrived carrier. The current version does only have "dummy" activities for the NXT calls and only collects all needed data for printing the "Bill of Lading" (which is, if you don't know yet, _really_ printed! ;)).

So that's enough for today. The SOAHarbor-team will now enjoy the christmas days without NXTs, ESBs and wooden harbors... we'll be back for the 26c3 (see post below!) -

Merry christmas
The SOAHarbor-Team

StockRobot working!

We're proud to tell you that our stock robot is now able to move packets from one stock position to another. Watch him:

SOAHARBOR @ 26c3

As we already posted, we'll be "exhibitors" at the 26th Chaos Communication Congress event in Essen. - BUT _ONLY_ on the 29th and 30th december!

We're looking forward to see you there!

Updated TechnicalOverview and slides of the last intermediate presentation

(TechnicalOverview including all systems of the final setup)

[download the presentation slides]

SOAHARBOR @ 26c3

Our team will work on (and present) the harbor on the "Essen branch" of the 26th Chaos Communication Congress in Berlin. Visitors welcome!

[more information here]

SOAHarbor Live! - Enjoy!

PING! - We're still coding...

Programming feels like being drunk...

(a 'baguette' from Pizzeria La Palma Essen - looks more like a pita!)

(the setup for high-performance SOA engineering)

(uncommented - see post title!)

Happy refactoring! :)

Hey folks,

we are really sorry not to have posted for such a long time... we are now working hard on the project but as you can imagine, we can only be proud for our progress when there is a VISIBLE result. There are many interesting things around the BPEL4LEGO-Engine and all the SOA-related ESB-things, but posts about that (maybe including screencasts) are really time-consuming in creation. So please wait for our next intermediate presentation to be held on november 30th - after that, we surely have some nice more stuff for you.

In the meantime, I have a nice screenshot for you:


This screen shows our Mule component responsible for external SOAP calls by NXTs. The first approach needed nearly 500 LOCs and finally didn't work ;) - Now I found a new approach reducing the code to 130 LOCs! YEEEEEEHA ;)!

Cheers
Tim

StockRobot helped us reducing calories for lunch :)

The StockRobot formerly had some balance problems, but with MILSANI durable cream (sorry, no website available), everything works perfect! See below:

Small correction ^^

Hey folks,

I'm sorry, the last svnstat report included our sandbox projects with some test code and full Eclipse workspaces... :) Here's the LOC history only for the "real" code:

Project evolution

This is one of the nice graphs statsvn can create for SVN repositories. A great tool that generates many more of useful reports!


If we really have nearly 50.000 LOCs now, where will the project end? What if someone would request JavaDoc comments ;) ?

Pulling up a packet is not as easy as you may think ;)

LoadingBridge 2.0 and PacketElevator 2.0 moving!

The first version of the LoadingBridge and the PacketElevator unfortunately were not fault-tolerant by construction, cause the claws were moved up and down with a tiny rope - now our harbor engineers used a gear bar for the LoadingBridge and a long gearless bar in combination with two big rubber wheels for the PacketElevator. See the results below:

(LoadingBridge 2.0)




(PacketElevator 2.0)

For completeness: Slides from the first intermediate presentation (June 2009)

The scenario's storyboard and other introducing information inside! :)

[get the slides]

Next SOAHARBOR-Day@Essen

We're currently facing problems with the miniminiminimalistic resources of these NXT machines... but our LoadingBridge is working fine with a hardcoded Java program!

BPEL4LEGO processes in work, NXT-ESB-Connector nearly ready, now coding on the SOA-Monitor...

Intermediate presentation

Our team did that presentation for our project tutors from the SSE group. We presented the current state, talked about the next steps to take and some additional features to goldplate our SOA ;). The audience was very pleased and we're all looking forward to the next weeks of hard work... stand by ;)

[get the slides]

Talking about harbors...

What software helps you making nice architecture overviews?

I'd really want to know the answer... but for now I have to fight with Inkscape to get the architecture diagram done... here's an excerpt:


And it should have looked like this ;)

Testing our conveyor belt

Jan and Tim took that video just after putting the tube onto that machine...

First impressions of our harbor

After moving our project office to Tim's flat, we took some photos of our harbor. It's not finished yet... the stock robot and the ship(s) are still missing...

(the conveyor belt with a bicycle tube)

(the whole harbor)

(the loading bridge - currently without wheels ;))

(the warehouse with these nice packets inside)

... please stand by... we're going to work hard on that project in the next weeks...!