NexJ-CDOT Knowledge Base

Purpose

The research activities of creating the NexJ-CDOT knowledge base at CDOT-Seneca has three goals in mind.

• It will enable new research students to go through a shorter learning curve in working with the huge code base of NexJ Model Server Express (i.e the NexJ Framework).
• It will benefit the open source community of developers who want to make contributions to the NexJ Express code base.
• It will be a repository of various software artifacts that have been produced during the process of working with the code base of NexJ Model Server Express.

Documents Provided by NexJ

• Introduction To NexJ Studio Express (open sourced, available on Open Health Tools Platform) [1]
• NexJ Studio Fundamentals (confidential and proprietary)
• NexJ Studio - Integration Fundamentals (confidential and proprietary)
• Working with NexJ Express Source Code (open sourced, available on Open Health Tools Platform)
• NexJ Systems Developer's Guide (confidential and proprietary)

NexJ Software Engineering Practice

• agile software engineering
  • SCRUM
    • the SQLite Adapter project
• emphasis on performance and optimization
  • the PostgreSQL Adapter project [2]
    • "There was an emphasis placed on optimizing the code and making use of the things that PostgreSQL is “good at”." (Grace)
  • the JSON Message Adapter project

NexJ Framework Concepts As Mined From The NexJ Training Tutorial Documents

• research notes

NexJ Framework Design Concepts As Mined From The Code Repositories

The Persitence Engine

• projects: the PostgreSQL Adapter, the SQLite Adapter
• research notes on the code base (SQLite Adapter)

The Integration Engine

• project: the JSON Message Adapter [3]
• the NexJ Message concept
  • research notes on the code base
• the NexJ Channel concept
• the NexJ Transformation concept

Resources

• Hazzan and Dubinsky: Agile Software Engineering (Springer 2009) [4]
  • a multifaceted approach: the human perspective, the organizational perspective, the technological approach (HOT)
• An Exploratory Study of How Developers Seek, Relate, and Collect Relevant Informaiton during Software Maintenance Tasks. IEEE Transactions of Software Engineering, 32(12), 2006, pp. 971-987.
• Hazzan, O. (2002). The reflective practitioner perspective in software engineering education, The Journal of Systems and Software 63(3), pp. 161-171.
• Hazzan, O. and Tomayko, J. (2003). The reflective practitioner perspective in eXtreme Programming, Proceedings of the XP Agile Universe 2003, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, pp. 51-61.
• Theories, tools and research methods in program comprehension: past, present and future (Margaret-Anne Storey, University of Victoria, 2008) [5]
  • notes (agile development, open source)