GSoC

GSoC Projects and who is doing what:

Qpid Demo - two projects (one for AMQP 0-9 and one for AMQP 0-10)

Candidates:

Project Goal: Create a multi language Demo for Qpid, and use the demo as source to create the Qpid getting Started pages

Mentor: Carl/Rajith

Project Description:

The Qpid project likes to have an enterprise grade demo that reflects the messaging capabilities of the AMQP (www.amqp.org) protocol that uses brokers written in Java and C++ and the clients written in Java/JMS, c++, python, ruby, .NET

The Demo ca use any client server problem (like bank, stock, render farm, travel site etc) to illustrate the capabilities of the Qpid.

Qpid-java-broker-config

Candidates: Sachith Danushka.

Project Goal: Rationalize the configuration in the Java Broker to get it more consistent

Mentor: Aidan/Marnie/Martin

Project Description:

Refactor Qpid Java Broker configuration into a more elegant xml schema, with xsd, covering all existing configuration options and allowing for extension. Additionally implement a module to validate broker configuration files, which could be run standalone i.e. before starting a broker, to check that they're well formed and validate against the xsd.

More info:

Currently the broker configuration for the Qpid Java Broker is a little untidy. There's the bulk of the core broker configuration, much of which the majority of our end users won't want to change much, in the default config.xml files that we ship. On top of that we have a set of properties for the virtualhosts (which includes the ability to define per host some queues which will always exist on broker startup etc) in a separate file.

At the moment, if you edit the config.xml file you're using and accidentally damage or remove an important section the broker will blow up in an unexpected fashion. Creating an xsd and validating the config.xml at startup (probably as a switch on/off-able option !) would help to avoid this possibility.

We could also provide more information about what the config file contains in a self-documenting way. I'd suggest we need to restructure the config set up too - the virtualhosts file is at the very least badly named, but probably not really fit for purpose.

qpid-android-demo

Project Goal:
Implement a simple demo on Android using the Qpid client to send messages to and from a broker, such as stock price information and trade orders

Contact person: Aidan Skinner <aidan AT apache DOT org>

Project Description:

Android is hot, Qpid is hot, porting the Qpid client to Android and getting it to pull some information and publish some would be hot.

DBus over Qpid

Project Goal:
Implement an AMQP transport for DBus using Qpid.

Contact Person: Aidan Skinner <aidan AT apache DOT org>

Project Description:
Running DBus over AMQP would allow some interesting use cases, such as home automation, automatic synchronisation and the like, turning it into a true network bus.

You would need to be familiar with C, C++, Python or Java, and would ideally have experience working with disparate Free Software communities.