Customer Contacts:

Clay Cover (Primary)

Greg Bolcer
 

Summary

Create a new GUI component for the Endeavors Advanced Workflow System . The new component will be called the Resource Artist and will provide a graphical representation of existing resources along with the means to create and modify new resources and assign the resources to a project. Resources are anything that has an identity; such as: software, hardware, buildings, rooms, people, and teams. Resources can also be collections of other resources.

Background

Endeavors  is one of the research projects here at UCI. It is designed to improve coordination and managerial control of development teams by allowing flexible definition, modeling, and execution of typical workflow applications.  Many previous 125 project teams have contributed to the Endeavors program.
 

Problem Description/Requirements

Endeavors is written in Java and is in the process of upgrading to the JDK1.1 AWT event model and incorporating message based communication between the user interface components and the underlying process engine. The current Resource Artist uses the old JDK1.02 event mechanism and is incompatible with the rest of the system. The Resource Artist will be implemented using the latest Java JDK release and use the Java Foundation Classes  as a source for lightweight components. Use of components from third party tool vendors such as Visual Cafe is not allowed. But use of these tools to work with the JFC components is OK. We are looking for the capabilities found in programs such as buddy lists, electronic roledexes, and automated installation tools. We would also like to see any other neat graphical features you can think of.
 

Desired Features of the Resource Artist

• Artist will be able to determine available resources on the system where it is running. Whether it is running as an application or as an applet in a web browser. Possibly through a wizard-like interface. The captured information is about the location of the tool, how to invoke it or send it messages, or any other attributes that indicate the nature of the resource.
• Drag and drop objects such as Windows shortcut icons or a Netscape web page bookmark onto the Artist to prompt creation of new resources.
• Drag and drop Resources on other Endeavors UI components to assign the resource to a project.
• Users are provided with a wizard to facilitate creation/modification of new Resources.
• The Resource Artist must support the definition of groups, people, hardware, information about computers and platforms, software and software tools, specific versions and invocation information, meeting rooms, buildings, etc.