[Yanel-dev] Annotating resources

Balz Schreier balz.schreier at gmail.com
Thu Feb 24 14:47:42 CET 2011 

Yes, "meta tagging" would be self explaining. but that's my personal view on
this.



On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 2:41 PM, Michael Wechner
<michael.wechner at wyona.com>wrote:

>  Hi
>
> It's more generic:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annotation
>
> but yes, maybe the term "tag" or "keyword" might be better as an
> alternative.
>
> WDYT?
>
> Thanks
>
> Michael
>
>
> On 2/24/11 9:24 AM, Balz Schreier wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I am a bit irritated by the term "Annotations" and you should explain
> somewhere what you mean by annotations. Otherwise Java developers probably
> think about "the other" annotations which are around since JavaSE5.
>
>  Annotations are usually declarative configuration attributes on classes
> and methods, like
>
>  @Singleton
> public class DataService {
> }
>
>  or
>
>  @XmlTransient
> private String thisDoesNotGetPersisted = null;
>
>  Cheers
> Balz
>
> On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 9:18 AM, Schaaf Marc <marc.schaaf at fhnw.ch> wrote:
>
>>  Hi
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks Michael for applying my patches!
>>
>>
>>
>> As Michael already mentioned, they add basic support for annotations by
>> introducing a new “Annotatable” interface which is currently implemented
>> only by the XMLResource. Via this interface it is possible to
>> set/get/remove/clear the annotations where an annotation is a simple string
>> with no further properties (for now).  To allow the usage those annotations,
>> they are also added to the access logging from where an analyzing component
>> can read them together with the user requests.
>>
>>
>>
>> If you have any further questions, feel free to ask J
>>
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Marc
>>
>>
>>
>> *Von:* yanel-development-bounces at wyona.com [mailto:
>> yanel-development-bounces at wyona.com] *Im Auftrag von *Michael Wechner
>> *Gesendet:* Mittwoch, 23. Februar 2011 13:08
>> *An:* yanel-development at wyona.com
>> *Betreff:* Re: [Yanel-dev] Annotating resources
>>
>>
>>
>> Hi
>>
>> Thanks to Marc the annotations are now also added to the access log:
>>
>> Sending        src/webapp/src/java/org/wyona/yanel/servlet/AccessLog.java
>> Sending
>> src/webapp/src/java/org/wyona/yanel/servlet/YanelServlet.java
>> Transmitting file data ..
>> Committed revision 56923.
>>
>> whereas the results of the review are:
>>
>>    - Does it build? YES (but it didn't originally because it broke
>>    backwards compatibility)
>>    - Is the formatting correct? Should be fixed now (used tabs instead of
>>    spaces)
>>    - Is there an automatic test? Make sure that there are automatic
>>    tests, which are covering the changes which the patch will imply. NO
>>    - Is it backwards compatible? YES (but it was broken, see
>>    src/contributions/resources/contact-form/src/java/org/wyona/yanel/impl/resources/contactform/ContactResource.java)
>>    - Does it scale/perform? (Can the implementation be changed?) YES and
>>    NO, because the logging has become slower, but the analysis will become
>>    faster and it is a workaround for the revision problem
>>    - Can it be enhanced? Kind of ...
>>    - Can it be customized? The annotation implementation can be
>>    customized ....
>>    - Does it work within a cluster? YES
>>    - Is it secure? YES and NO, depends if the annotations contain
>>    "secret" information
>>    - Can it be used offline? YES
>>    - Can the patch be reverted easily? YES
>>    - Does it work for all browsers? Only tested Firefox yet
>>
>>
>> Btw, I have also fixed that if a URL contains a query string that this is
>> also written into the access log file,
>> because for example in the case of introspection the "same" URL is called
>> twice be the browser, e.g.
>>
>>
>> http://127.0.0.1:8080/yanel/yanel-website/en/about.htm?yanel.resource.usecase=introspection
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Michael
>>
>>
>>
>> On 2/22/11 9:35 AM, Michael Wechner wrote:
>>
>> Hi
>>
>> Thanks to Marc Schaaf we now have an "Annotatable" interface which allows
>> to annotate resources
>> and also use this information for third party applications, e.g. Boost in
>> order to generate tag clouds re what users are interested in. Marc has also
>> created a simple annotation editor which is currently used by the yanel
>> website realm.
>>
>> I guess Marc will send some more notes re further steps (e.g. re
>> ontologies:
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontology_%28information_science%29)
>>
>> The basic code pieces are:
>>
>> U    conf/resource-types.xml
>> A
>> src/realms/yanel-website/res-configs-repo/data/usecases/pageMetadataManager.html.yanel-rc
>> U
>> src/realms/yanel-website/src/java/org/wyona/yanel/website/menu/impl/YanelWebsiteMenu.java
>> U    src/realms/yanel-website/data-repo/data/xslt/global.xsl
>> A    src/core/java/org/wyona/yanel/core/api/attributes/AnnotatableV1.java
>> U
>> src/resources/xml/src/java/org/wyona/yanel/impl/resources/XMLResource.java
>> A    src/resources/pageMetaDataManager
>> A
>> src/resources/pageMetaDataManager/src/java/com/wyona/yanel/metadata/manager/PageMetaDataManager.java
>>
>> Re code review:
>>
>>    - Does it build? YES
>>    - Is the formatting correct? Should be fixed now (used tabs instead of
>>    spaces)
>>    - Is there an automatic test? Make sure that there are automatic
>>    tests, which are covering the changes which the patch will imply. NO
>>    - Is it backwards compatible? YES, because annotations are implemented
>>    as a versioned interface
>>    - Does it scale/perform? (Can the implementation be changed?) YES,
>>    because of doing it as an interface
>>    - Can it be enhanced? YES, because of versioned interface
>>    - Can it be customized? The implementation can be customized
>>    - Does it work within a cluster? NOT really, because the properties
>>    are not locked yet, but we will fix that shortly. But also depends on the
>>    repository implementation.
>>    - Is it secure? YES, if the policies for the editor are set correctly,
>>    but NO otherwise
>>    - Can it be used offline? YES
>>    - Can the patch be reverted easily? NO, because various resource types
>>    (e.g. XMLResource) will start implementing this interface
>>    - Does it work for all browsers? Only tested Firefox yet
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Michael
>>
>>
>>
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