open source administration software for education research administration Lin-Long Shyu System Analyst Kuali Coeus Technical Team Indiana University

open source administration software for education Customization with maven war/overlay  Provide configuration for institutional customization  Extend  Override  Use Maven overlay  Maven What is it?: build, dependency, project management tool Good : Dependency Management, many plugins, works with Eclipse Bad : Poor documentation, rigid, high learning curve, not all plugins well tested.  Maven/war plugin/Overlay shares common resources across multiple web applications. Merges between an original war and other code/files that you develop.  KC uses maven  Confluence page Link :

open source administration software for education Use Case : Services, struts actions, and forms  Spring : Bean customization, mostly services.  CustomSpringBeans.xml : overrides kc spring beans adds new beans. This file name is hard coded in KraServiceLocator.java.  Struts-config : action and form classes.  struts-custom-config.xml : overrides kc's struts configuration adds new struts configuration. This file is defined in web.xml. /WEB-INF/struts-config.xml, /WEB-INF/struts-custom- config.xml

open source administration software for education Use Case : OJB, Configuration, Web Content  OJB repository : new classes.  repository-custom.xml : override kc's OJB descriptors add new class descriptors. defined in CustomSpringBeans.xml. <bean id="customModuleConfiguration-parentBean" class="org.kuali.rice.kns.bo.ModuleConfiguration" abstract="true"> org/kuali/kra/custom/repository-custom.xml  Configuration extension.  kc-config-custom.xml add institution specific configuration. This file name is set in kc-config.xml. classpath:META-INF/kc-config-custom.xml  Web content : jsp/tag/scripts/images are automatically overlayed by maven/overlay.

open source administration software for education Use Case : Data Dicitonary  DD :  modify bo properties.  Rule class  Authorization class  Defined in CustomSpringBeans.xml. org/kuali/kra/custom/datadictionary

open source administration software for education Steps to create KC_custom project  check out from svn Or Create kc_custom from scratch   Apply patch to kc_project R2.  Customization configurations files not included in R2  install kc_project to local maven repository  mvn -Dmaven.test.skip=true install  do customization in kc_custom  create war file for kc_custom with the overlay of kc_project

open source administration software for education Issues and work around  Eclipse  Jetty Debug configuration 8080 "/kc-dev" "/target/kc_custom-1.0-SNAPSHOT" default : 8080 "/kc-dev" "/web/src/main/webapp“  Unit test  loading classes issue : classes in multiple jar files and folders Delete 'lib' and 'classes' folders in /%PROJECT_DIRECTORY%/kc_custom/target/kc_custom-1.0-SNAPSHOT/WEB- INF.  Relative Web root : kc-test-config-custom.xml : It contains the custom web root. /target/kc_custom-1.0-SNAPSHOT  POM file inheritance  option 1 : copy from Kc and modify.  option 2 : create pom_custom.xml in kc_project, which is a copy from pom.xml, and change 'packaging' to 'pom'. add 'parent' element to kc_custom's pom.xml. org.kuali.kra kc_project 2.0../kc_project/pom_custom.xml