2015-06-11 Developers Forum

• Quickly review previous meeting minutes (5 min)

• Spring 4 & Adopting Java 8 (what does it mean for core development, for module authors)

• Review next meeting agenda

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OpenMRS Developers Forum 2015-06-11

Recording: https://goo.gl/Tgm6Iv (Audio) https://connect.iu.edu/p7h1krq8jzh/ (Adobe® Flash®)

Attendees

• Wyclif Luyima (Guest Host)

• Rafal Korytkowski

• Michael Downey

• Natalia

• Tomasz Mueller

• HS 3080 Sofa Surfer(s)

• HS 3077 Conference Room Listeners

• ada

• maany

• Manika Praveenkumar Maheshwari

• Archana Eadara

• Ryan Yates

• Maurya

• Darius Jazayeri

• Sandeep Raparthi

• Willa

• Daniel Kayiwa

Agenda & Notes

• Review last week TODOs

• TODO: Created a ticket to add "rename a module" feature as a maven task that can be invoked by SDK command "omrs-rename newname"

• TODO: consider using grunt maven plugin to allow automated builds to easily issue grunt commands

• Spring 4 w/ Rafal Korytkowski

• 3 of 6 sub-tasks complete: https://issues.openmrs.org/browse/TRUNK-4584

• Spring 3.x will be EOL in 2015

• Questions

• What does this mean for module devs? Are there any things that need to be done as a result of the upgrade? (No major changes)

• Hibernate 4

• Packaging of session class has changed.

• There is a hibernate compatibility module (https://github.com/openmrs/openmrs-module-hibernatecompatibility) . 

• Need to be installed in OpenMRS versions with pre hibernate 4 versions (1.9.x and below)

• Helps to support both hibernate 3 & 4 for modules developers. 

• Module will have to declare dependency on this module. (Needs to be aware only)

• TODO: Document different ways to provide backwards compatibility and when to use hibernatecompatibility

• Adopting Java 8 w/ Wyclif Luyima

• In code review: https://issues.openmrs.org/browse/TRUNK-4583

• Example differences in Java 8: https://issues.openmrs.org/browse/TRUNK-4583?focusedCommentId=219543&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel#comment-219543

• After Action Review

• What did you expect to happen?

• What actually happened?

• What can we do different?

• Preview next week

• WIP: PIH/Haiti Update w/ Mike Seaton

• Audio recording of the call: Listen online or download (available after the meeting)