Student Success Plan (SSP) Application Architecture

Overview of Student Success Plan (SSP) technical application architecture - code layers, libraries/frameworks, APIs and other integration points. Intended for developers who might be interested in either working on SSP code directly or integrating SSP with institutional data feeds and applications. #apereo13

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1. Student Success Plan Architecture Sunday, June 2, 13
2. Overview • Intro • Structure • Dependencies • APIs • Data Integrations • Reports • Building a SSP Tool • Resources Sunday, June 2, 13
3. Intro Sunday, June 2, 13
4. Me Sunday, June 2, 13
5. Software Architect at Unicon, Inc Sunday, June 2, 13
6. Plenty of Sakai Sunday, June 2, 13
7. Little bit of uPortal, CAS, etc Sunday, June 2, 13
8. Recently *lots* of SSP Sunday, June 2, 13
9. Sunday, June 2, 13
10. Open Source Consulting Sunday, June 2, 13
11. Commercial and Edu Sunday, June 2, 13
12. 1993 Sunday, June 2, 13
13. Open Source Support Sunday, June 2, 13
14. Hosting and Managed Services Sunday, June 2, 13
15. SSP Sunday, June 2, 13
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17. Sunday, June 2, 13
18. Originally ColdFusion+FLEX apps Sunday, June 2, 13
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20. In use in one form or another for 10+ years Sunday, June 2, 13
21. Originally developed by Sinclair Community College (Dayton,OH) Sunday, June 2, 13
22. “According to Sinclair statistics from 2005 – 2011, students using SSP were five times more likely to graduate. For quarter to quarter retention rates ... transitioned SSP students ... had a 37% higher rate of retention compared to students who qualified for the program but did not participate and a 26% higher rate of retention than students not designated “at risk”. http://www.studentsuccessplan.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=81:ssphistory&catid=43:main&Itemid=110 Sunday, June 2, 13
23. Consolidation and Java re-write over last ~1.5yrs Sunday, June 2, 13
24. Jasig Incubation Sunday, June 2, 13
25. Two main feature sets Sunday, June 2, 13
26. 1. Caseload Management Sunday, June 2, 13
27. Sunday, June 2, 13
28. Includes “Early Alert” processing... Sunday, June 2, 13
29. ...student profiles... Sunday, June 2, 13
30. ...advisor session journaling... Sunday, June 2, 13
31. ...advisor resources and planning... Sunday, June 2, 13
32. ...and yet more to come Sunday, June 2, 13
33. 2. MAP Sunday, June 2, 13
34. Sunday, June 2, 13
35. Course Planning Sunday, June 2, 13
36. Not Scheduling Sunday, June 2, 13
37. Roughly 2/3 complete Sunday, June 2, 13
38. 7 active devs Sunday, June 2, 13
39. Structure Sunday, June 2, 13
40. Clients APIs Services DAOs DB Sunday, June 2, 13
41. Clients Services DAOs DB DTOs APIs Controllers Entities Sunday, June 2, 13
42. Clients Services DAOs DB DTOs APIs Controllers Entities Factories Sunday, June 2, 13
43. Clients DB DTOs APIs Controllers Entities Factories Services DAOs Sunday, June 2, 13
44. Transactions Security Clients APIs Services DAOs DB Sunday, June 2, 13
45. Clients APIs Services DAOs DB Operational Tables External Tables Sunday, June 2, 13
46. Clients APIs Services DAOs DB Operational Tables External Tables Enterprise Sunday, June 2, 13
47. Clients APIs Services DAOs DB Caseload Portlets 3rd Party Sunday, June 2, 13
48. Dependencies Sunday, June 2, 13
49. Most of the usual server-side suspects Sunday, June 2, 13
50. Clients APIs Services DAOs DB Sunday, June 2, 13
51. Spring Clients DB DAOs APIs Services Sunday, June 2, 13
52. Spring Clients Hibernate DB DAOs APIs Services Sunday, June 2, 13
53. Spring Clients Hibernate DB DAOs Spring Web MVC APIs Services Sunday, June 2, 13
54. Spring Clients Spring Security Hibernate DB DAOs Spring Web MVC APIs Services Sunday, June 2, 13
55. Clients Services DAOs DB DTOs APIs Controllers Jackson Jasper JSON PDF/CSV Sunday, June 2, 13
56. DB migrations via Liquibase Sunday, June 2, 13
57. (Most of the) Client is a FAT Ext.js (4.1) app Sunday, June 2, 13
58. Remainder split into three portlets Sunday, June 2, 13
59. 1. Early Alert Submission Sunday, June 2, 13
60. Sunday, June 2, 13
61. 2. Reports Sunday, June 2, 13
62. Sunday, June 2, 13
63. 3. MyGPS Sunday, June 2, 13
64. (This one escapes the portal entirely) Sunday, June 2, 13
65. Sunday, June 2, 13
66. uPortal Integration Sunday, June 2, 13
67. Users Sunday, June 2, 13
68. Login Form Sunday, June 2, 13
69. Login Form AuthN Attribs Authz Sunday, June 2, 13
70. Login Form AuthN Attribs Authz Calculate Layout Sunday, June 2, 13
71. Login Form AuthN Attribs Authz Calculate Layout Layout Fragment Sunday, June 2, 13
72. Login Form AuthN Attribs Authz Calculate Layout Layout Fragment Pluto PortletRequest Sunday, June 2, 13
73. Login Form AuthN Attribs Authz Calculate Layout Layout Fragment Pluto PortletRequest SSP Portlet PersonService Sunday, June 2, 13
74. Login Form AuthN Attribs Authz Calculate Layout Layout Fragment Pluto PortletRequest SSP Portlet PersonService V_EXTERNAL_PERSON PERSON Sunday, June 2, 13
75. Login Form AuthN Attribs Authz Calculate Layout Permissions Service Layout Fragment Pluto PortletRequest SSP Portlet PersonService V_EXTERNAL_PERSON PERSON PortletContext Sunday, June 2, 13
76. Login Form AuthN Attribs Authz Calculate Layout Permissions Service Layout Fragment Pluto PortletRequest SSP Portlet PersonService V_EXTERNAL_PERSON PERSON PortletContext IPermissionStore Sunday, June 2, 13
77. Login Form AuthN Attribs Authz Calculate Layout Permissions Service Layout Fragment Pluto PortletRequest SSP Portlet PersonService V_EXTERNAL_PERSON PERSON PortletContext PortletResponse IPermissionStore Sunday, June 2, 13
78. Permissions Sunday, June 2, 13
79. Attribute Values FOO TRUE BAR BAZ A,B Sunday, June 2, 13
80. Attribute Values FOO TRUE BAR BAZ A,B FOO BAR BAZ_A BAZ_B BAZ_C ROOT Sunday, June 2, 13
81. Attribute Values FOO TRUE BAR BAZ A,B FOO BAR BAZ_A BAZ_B BAZ_C [FOO=*] [BAR=X] [BAZ=A] [BAZ=B] [BAZ=C] ROOT Sunday, June 2, 13
82. Attribute Values FOO TRUE BAR BAZ A,B FOO BAR BAZ_A BAZ_B BAZ_C [FOO=*] [BAR=X] [BAZ=A] [BAZ=B] [BAZ=C] ROOT Match !(Match) Match Match !(Match) Sunday, June 2, 13
83. FOO BAR BAZ_A BAZ_B BAZ_C [FOO=*] [BAR=X] [BAZ=A] [BAZ=B] [BAZ=C] ROOT Match !(Match) Match Match !(Match) Attribute Values Permissions FOO TRUE BAR BAZ A,B Sunday, June 2, 13
84. But coach lookup is a special case... Sunday, June 2, 13
85. Deployment Sunday, June 2, 13
86. Released as a single WAR Sunday, June 2, 13
87. “Standalone mode” really only usable for dev Sunday, June 2, 13
88. No EA. No Reports. Sunday, June 2, 13
89. Could theoretically depend on LDAP for authN and AuthZ Sunday, June 2, 13
90. All current deployments run SSP as an overlayed portlet app Sunday, June 2, 13
91. uPlatform/SSP Platform Sunday, June 2, 13
92. Sunday, June 2, 13
93. With some work could drop in to vanilla uPortal Sunday, June 2, 13
94. Needs large quantity of group/ perms config Sunday, June 2, 13
95. ...and PermissionsService Sunday, June 2, 13
96. APIs Sunday, June 2, 13
97. REST Sunday, June 2, 13
98. All JSON, All The Time Sunday, June 2, 13
99. Very broad Sunday, June 2, 13
100. But fairly consistent Sunday, June 2, 13
101. Docs not automated Sunday, June 2, 13
102. But are actively maintained Sunday, June 2, 13
103. https://wiki.jasig.org/display/SSP/API +Documentation Sunday, June 2, 13
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106. API Security still an open issue Sunday, June 2, 13
107. Expect Oauth or something Oauth- like Sunday, June 2, 13
108. For now, need to emulate a uP login Sunday, June 2, 13
109. SSP API calls bypass portlet request dispatch Sunday, June 2, 13
110. https://gist.github.com/dmccallum/5671968 Sunday, June 2, 13
111. Data Integrations Sunday, June 2, 13
112. https://wiki.jasig.org/display/SSP/SSP+Data +Integration+Strategies Sunday, June 2, 13
113. Two basic options Sunday, June 2, 13
114. 1. Push Sunday, June 2, 13
115. This is what everyone actually does Sunday, June 2, 13
116. Sunday, June 2, 13
117. 2. Pull Sunday, June 2, 13
118. Not highly recommended Sunday, June 2, 13
119. ...and might go away Sunday, June 2, 13
120. Sunday, June 2, 13
121. Docs Sunday, June 2, 13
122. https://wiki.jasig.org/display/SSP/SSP+Integration +Documents Sunday, June 2, 13
123. Sunday, June 2, 13
124. Reports Sunday, June 2, 13
125. ~20 pre-defined reports Sunday, June 2, 13
126. Extensive filtering options for each Sunday, June 2, 13
127. Sunday, June 2, 13
128. Reports designed in iReport and rendered by Jasper Sunday, June 2, 13
129. Dev Team keenly interested in a more generic OLAP approach Sunday, June 2, 13
130. ...At least for a subset Sunday, June 2, 13
131. Come see that talk on Thursday! Sunday, June 2, 13
132. Building a SSP Tool Sunday, June 2, 13
133. Don’t misinterpret tools as plugins Sunday, June 2, 13
134. But here’s the world’s simplest SSP tool... Sunday, June 2, 13
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140. Resources Sunday, June 2, 13
141. http://www.studentsuccessplan.org/ Sunday, June 2, 13
142. https://wiki.jasig.org/display/JSG/Student+Success +Plan+Lists Sunday, June 2, 13
143. https://wiki.jasig.org/display/SSP/jasig-ssp+IRC+Logs Sunday, June 2, 13
144. https://wiki.jasig.org/display/SSP/Home Sunday, June 2, 13
145. https://issues.jasig.org/browse/SSP Sunday, June 2, 13
146. https://github.com/Jasig/SSP Sunday, June 2, 13
147. dmccallum@unicon.net Sunday, June 2, 13