[Radioactive-developers] Recent project announcements, the Foundation and other news....

[Michael M. <mi...@re...>]

Hi everyone,
  As some of you might have seen, the last week has been a busy one for
the project. The founders have setup a non-profit foundation in order to
give the project a legal footing (more on that from Somen and Shaun
later), and due to some recent and proposed code donations we've
expanded the scope a bit to include other parts of the EPCglobal
architecture. Specifically the existing middleware project is joined by
the Neutrino and Graviton projects. The Neutrino project is about the
part of the architecture that handles the data communications between
enterprises and includes things such as an ONS client and an EPC-IS
server. The Graviton project includes the xSim project plus eventual
implementations of the various reader protocols and reader management
standards. Here's a road map showing how they relate and the general
EPCglobal Network architecture: http://radioactivehq.org/roadmap.html 
  One project that isn't on there that probably should exist is what I
call the Commons (that's what the Apache guys call their's). That's
mostly libraries and utilities that all of the other projects need. It
would include things like tag parsing, tag translation, security, etc. I
have already donated a good bit of the tag related code from my old
xcEPC project and will be refactoring that to reflect the project's
package structure soon. Its all in the current project CVS under the
commons directory.
  So if you're only interested in the middlware work that's already been
started then nothing really changes except the name. But if anyone is
interested in helping out with the Neutrino and/or Graviton parts then
there should be a project infrastructure forming around those soon. I
suspect that given Sourceforge's structure those will be separate
Sourceforge projects unless someone has a better organizational
suggestion. 
  I've sent this to the design and developers lists to make sure I hit
everyone but I'd like to keep the general architecture discussion to the
design list just to keep it all focused.

-MM

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