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KRAD

Kuali Application Development Framework

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Kuali Foundation

• Non-Profit Organization• Facilitates the creation of Open Source

Administrative Software “By Higher Education, for Higher Education”

• Made up of over 70 different higher education institutions and affiliates

• Software is written and licensed under Open Source Educational Community License

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Kuali Projects

• Kuali Financial System• Kuali Coeus• Kuali Student• Kuali OLE• Kuali People Management for the Enterprise• Kuali Ready• Kuali Mobility• Kuali Rice

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Kuali Rice

• Kuali Rice consists of multiple sub-projects which provide:– Middleware Services– Application Development Framework

• These different pieces are integrated into a cohesive software stack

• This provides a common “platform” for Enterprise application development and integration

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Kuali Rice Components

• KSB - Kuali Service Bus• KIM - Kuali Identity Management• KEW - Kuali Enterprise Workflow• KEN - Kuali Enterprise Notification• KRMS – Kuali Rule Management System• KRAD – Kuali Rapid Application Development

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What is KRAD?

• Application development framework for enterprise applications

• Part of the Rice stack:– KRAD, KEW, KEN, KIM, KRMS, KSB

• Used by the other Kuali applications along with local institutional applications

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What is KRAD?

Architecture/Tools

KRAD

Kuali Application External

Functional Modules

Technical Module

TechnicalFoundation

Chart of Accounts Financial Transaction Processing

Research Administration General Ledger

Accounts Receivables

Contract and Grants

KEW

KIM

KSB

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What is KRAD?

• Provides frameworks and utilities across all application layers

Presentation Layer

Business Layer

Data Layer

UI Framework

Business Rules

Persistence Framework Data Dictionary

Document Framework

Inquiry, Lookup, Maintenance

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What is KRAD?

• Tool Set

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Benefits of KRAD

• Decreased development time• Increased code reuse (more maintainble)• Standard development paradigm (training)• Standard Look and Feel• Integration with other Rice modules (KEW,

KIM)• Accessibility• Designed for Extensibility

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KRAD Screenshots

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KRAD Screenshots

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KRAD Screenshots

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Tooling Projects – DO Generator

• Getting started with KRAD requires several artifacts to be created manually:– DDL– Data Object Java Class– ORM Mapping– XML Metadata Files (Data Dictionary)– Workflow XML

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Tooling Projects – DO Generator

• Ex. Dictionary XML for One Field <bean id="Player-number" parent="Player-number-parentBean"/> <bean id="Player-number-parentBean" abstract="true" parent="AttributeDefinition"> <property name="name" value="number"/> <property name="label" value="Number"/> <property name="shortLabel" value="Nbr"/> <property name="forceUppercase" value="false"/> <property name="maxLength" value="2"/> <property name="validCharactersConstraint"> <bean parent="IntegerPatternConstraint" p:allowNegative="false"/> </property> <property name="controlField"> <bean parent="TextControl" p:size="3" p:watermarkText="##"/> </property> <property name="constraintText" value="Must be one or two digits"/> <property name="summary" value="Number used to identify the player"/> <property name="description" value="Number used to identify the player"/> </bean>

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Tooling Projects – DO Generator

• Tool will perform initial creation of artifacts and perform edits

• Comprised of ‘engine’ and one or more clients

Generator Engine

Command Line Client

GUI Client

Other Client

Artifacts

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Tooling Projects – DO Generator

• Program written with Java or Groovy• Tooling for GUI to be discussed, JavaFx?• Command line client should support both

interactive mode (step by step) and non-interactive mode (user driven commands, Spring Roo like)

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Tooling Projects – DO Generator

• When possible, client should present options for input (e.g. valid property types)

• Validation of input will be required based on established rules*

• The tool will need to collect information about the host project for writing and reading artifacts

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Tooling Projects – DO Generator

• User should be allowed to undo last edit operation

• Program should interface with Liquibase for database change management

• Full specifications being developed at:https://wiki.kuali.org/display/KULRICE/KRAD+Tooling+Projects

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http://kuali.org/rice