Information for Technicians

GeniusWeb specification level:

• json based communication
• websocket connections for data that can change while running
• normal (http GET) connection for static data and service requests

General

• Java 8
• jackson based (de)serialisation
• Minimal external dependencies: only jackson for core functions
• All code publicly available
• Maven based dependency management and building.
• fully automated and standardized building of components
• full control of all versions of dependencies
• automatic download and linking of dependencies
• Standard project structure for easy understanding
• Use of maven allows tight integration into software IDEs such as Eclipse, IntelliJ and Netbeans.
• SVN based version control
• checkout of just the code that users need.
• Pre-compiled dependencies available through jFrog based artifactory
• Friendly user interface to allow manually checking details and fetching artifacts
• All code publicly available
• Debug down to the lowest levels
• Have the javadocs for the code

Web Services:

• Apache Tomcat 8
• simple pure javascript example interfaces
• illustrates the technology without the need to learn new technologies, paradigms, programming languages etc.

Protocol

• Allows parties to take new actions themselves (no need for having the turn)
• Parties can run anywhere as long as they conform to the communication protocols
• Allows new parties to join while session is running
• Can wait until there is space on the party servers

Profiles Server implementation

• Provides the latest version of domain and profile descriptions.
• get list of names of available domains and profiles
• GUIs to view this info
• Adding/removing profiles and domains by add/remove a jar file (requires admin access to the server).

Parties Server implementation

• Run instance of specific party on request
• Limited number of parties running at same time to ensure reasonable party performance
• get currently running parties and available parties
• GUIs to view this info
• Adding/removing parties by add/remove a jar file (requires admin access to the server).

Run Server implementation

• Runs protocols as requested
• negotiation result is stored in log file. This file can be read through normal (non-websocket) connections to avoid connection overloads.
• setup GUIs to create settings for session/tournament and to start them.
• GUI to list the currently running sessions

Technical documentation is available through https://tracinsy.ewi.tudelft.nl/pubtrac/GeniusWeb