[Registry-dev] Post 1.1 feature list for Registry core & product

[Afkham Azeez]

Some  thoughts from a discussion we had this afternoon.

1. Content Search
Based on Apache Lucene (http://lucene.apache.org/). Kalani will be 
implementing this.

2. Indexing Content for improving search response times
This is related to the item#1 above and will be implemented by Kalani.

3. Notifications
I think we need to develop a Carbon notifications component. We will be 
able to plug-in different notification mechanisms such as email, SMS, IM 
etc. Also external parties should be able to send messages to this 
component on event such as a resource being changed, commented on or 
tagged, potential DoS attack detected by the throttling component, fatal 
error occurring, a member detecting the failure of another member in a 
cluster etc.

4. Clustering
For HA and scalability

5. Registry Federation + Hierarchical registries

6. DB specific optimizations
This is a feature available in other registries such a Jackrabbit. We 
can optimize the queries, the way pagination is handled etc. based on 
the underlying DB.

I think we should be able to implement items#1,2,3 for the next release 
of registry. Any idea of a tentative release date?

BTW Do we need a standalone version of the registry product that will 
simply run out of the box? This can be easily done by bundling the 
registry.war with the standalone embedded tomcat server contained in 
Carbon core, and will contain a configured Derby database.

Anything else? Thoughts please.

Thanks
Azeez