DeviceMap and java

[Reza <re...@yahoo.com>]

So I went ahead and finished up the client portion of the service:

http://devicemap-vm.apache.org/javaclient.html


The client uses a simple js library (dmapClient) to do the backend call:

http://devicemap-vm.apache.org/dmapclient.js


FYI, the XHR call (dmapClient.xhr()) wont work across origin until I add the origin header to the backend. Also, this is not meant to be a public service, just a demo of how a service could be setup using DeviceMap.

So im going to kind of put anymore web/frontend/website work on ice for the time being. I would like to begin focusing on the Java client. Putting this all together gave me a good feel for the Java API and where it needs some work.

What I am thinking about doing is branching the client and then rework it piece by piece. Some of the areas I want to focus on:

-Loading the DDR data. Right now it loads it via an external path. It should detect and load from jar is possible.
-The project has dependencies on JARs and other projects which are non standard. I will either bring this code in, rewrite it, or eliminate it.
-I feel that the integration code is way too complex. It could be greatly simplified: 1) initialize the DDR, 2) pass in a user agent and get back a map of attributes, 3) repeat step 2. This should be no more than 10 lines of code total.
-Rework the core algorithm to increase the performance and accuracy.

This may end up being a total rewrite. Whatever I do rewrite will be done under the org.apache.devicemap package, so this may be a good thing. When its all said and done, we can review the changes, propose additional changes, and decide how we want to move forward.

Thoughts? Concerns?

thanks,
Reza