eBox MVC architecture
eBox MVC architecture
By Isaac Clerencia
Date: Tuesday, 4 August 2009 14:00
Duration: 40 minutes
Target audience: Technical Perl
Language:
Tags: architecture controller development framework model view
Speakers:
Javier Uruen (eBox lead developer)
Isaac Clerencia (eBox developer)
eBox Platform (http://ebox-platform.com) is a web-based application and development framework, based on the Ubuntu Linux computer operating system, intended to manage services in a computer
network.
It offers a layer of abstraction and management, accessible through a simple web interface, and also a simplified development environment for new features or customization. It consists of around 120000 lines of Perl at the moment and it's still under development with six full-time developers.
In the beginning we used a very primitive CGI-based solution which was really error-prone and required a lot of code, including writing HTML and manually writing CGIs.
After a while we started developing a highly-integrated full-fledged Model-View-Controller
architecture which allows to develop new modules without writing a single line of HTML or Javascript.
This talk explains how we worked at the beginning, the problems we faced and how we solved these problems with a problem-specific MVC framework.
This is some of our documentation on how to write an eBox module using the new framework:
http://people.warp.es/~isaac/moddev.pdf
Attended by: Isaac Clerencia, Lars Dɪᴇᴄᴋᴏᴡ (daxim), Martin Schipany (ElCondor), Jesse Vincent, Maciej Czekay (Bruno), Jozef Kutej (jozef), Mário Barbosa, Stan Sawa, Mark Stewart, Marco Neves (themage), Solli Honorio (shonorio), Carlos Juan Diaz (cjuan), Adilson Barros, Enrique J Hernandez Blasco (sixstone), Hugo Costa, Braceta, Luis Rodrigues (goblin), Christian Westgaard (ComLock), Luís Mendes (big), Edmund von der Burg (evdb), Jose Plana, Rui Patinha (rfp),