SE401:Group58:MeetingMinutes051408

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Notice

• Meetings will now be held during Wednesdays 3:00-3:30 PM

TODO

• Give URL to Professor Grundy for testing Wireshark application
• Give to Richard Lau to install onto lab computers

Next Week

• See if connectivity to work
• Else need to talk with Jesse and Craig

Meeting Details

General Information

• Endpoint room is now occupied by guests
  • Need to get it into an unoccupied room
• See Edmund for key for room 223/Content Server
• Can stick it into specialist labs
  • Might need dialog access with Richard
  • ECE =/= CS network

VideoSurface Example

• Can't get it going at the moment.
• Llyle researching the communications
• Tried to access via Silverlight example
  • Deactivated API password
  • Still sends errors
• Testing framework for testing connection/HTTP
  • Need Wireshark application
    • Does scanning
    • Soap Calls
• Some events are working
  • HTTP Exception called
  • Call Jesse and see if they had some problems before
  • Ask Richard to install it for us on our machine
• Problems with getting connection with Content Server
• Tried modifying example to make it work
  • Llyle found out it disallows connection..
    • Not relevant to our problem though
• 3 Protocols
  • One known not to work
• Setup here may be different - Ensuring problems
  • Change in environment (Firewall, etc)

Silverlight and SOAP

• Silverlight 1.1 SOAP and Content Server's SOAP 1.2
  • Inconpatible
    • Just want to try get SOAP message back
• SOAP needs requests
  • Have API that handled by ..
• Supports SOAP, ASMX, RSFeeds, ...
• At least 4 types supported from WCF

Alternatives

SOAP

• Can try Java to try make Silverlight alternative
• Try Silverlight Test-1st for SOAP calls
• SOAP version compatibility issues
  • Maybe syntax issues
  • Ask Jesse & Craig
• Suggest to Jesse to test SOAP calls against itself
  • Something that can be run on PC running itself

Contingency Plan

• SOAP message formats
  • Described in API
• Need API to get stream for content
• Try play with Example one week, then see if we can get it going
  • Otherwise, try Java
• Get a WSDL to generate
  • Try C# for SOAP 1.2
    • Web Servers

Connection

• Get an application that can at least talk with web server
  • Print back SOAP message at least
  • Get C#/Java to get call from server
  • Then see what happens next
    • Then ask why "Why not those 2"
• Or use 1.1 to call 1.2
  • Get C# to talk to it via C#
    • Some kind of alternative

Alternative Application

• Doing design and streaming work
• Playing wmv
• Library/Sharing
• Not necessary to use TANDBERG API
• Youtube-like
• Connectivity pushed aside
• Reasonble for us to have separate Database?
  • Yes
  • Maybe own SOAP server to share content
    • To the point of getting our own stuff working
    • Extension to their own
• Put on wiki and share with Jesse