Rice Next Generation Infrastructure for Applications

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RiceNext Generation Infrastructure for
Applications

• Brian McGough (Indiana University)
• Aaron Godert (Cornell University)

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The Goals

• Enable the technology infrastructure investment
  that was made for the Financial system to be
  leveraged by other Kuali sister projects
• Use a common development framework to gain
  productivity and consistency across Kuali projects

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The Goals

• Common underlying infrastructure in other Kuali
  modules will allow for easier adoption of new
  modules as they are developed
• Create a reusable development environment that
  could be adopted as a general approach to systems
  development and systems integration at an
  institution

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Kuali Rice

• There are several middleware subcomponents that
  make up Rice
• This diagram represents the core infrastructure
  components that represent Rice
• The next slide shows the role that Rice
  components play in applications

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Kuali Rice

• As shown in the previous diagram, Rice is made up
  of several reusable pieces of middleware
• A Rice enabled application will make use of the
  Rice Client to gain access to Rice middleware
  functionality
• Using the Rice Client in a project, development
  and integration with other Rice enabled
  applications and services comes for free

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The Future of Rice

• Looking ahead the components of Rice will allow
  for enhancements in the ways that our business
  processes are carried out without having to look
  at rewriting a bunch of systems
• Adoption of technology standards for components
  of Rice is a primary concern going forward
  BPEL, JSRs, Portals, etc to allow for
  interoperation with other standards compliant
  products and services in our environments