Ow2 Open World Forum09 France Telecom Use Case

France Telecom and OW2
highlights of an open-source strategy

Orange Labs

Alexandre Lefebvre, Research & Development
2 October 2009, OW2 User experience, Open World Forum

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quick facts

10 years of active membership
– 1999 : France Telecom R&D co-founder of ObjectWeb
– France Telecom Strategic Member of OW2 since its
creation
numerous Orange Labs contributions to the code base
– Fractal, ASM, CLIF, Salome-TMF, persistence, …
strong Group-wide commitment on JOnAS
– qualification and industrialisation process
– recommended on Group Catalog since 2003
– growing share of deployed JOnAS within France Telecom Group
– recognition and support of JOnAS Java EE 5 certification
Orange Labs - Research & Development – France Telecom and OW2 – OWF – 2 October 2009

open
source

Orange Labs - Research & Development – France Telecom and OW2 – OWF - 2009
1 April 2 October 2009

open source within the Group
contribution to open source software, often from R&D
– includes OW2 strategic membership
widespread usage of open source products
– includes industrialisation process, just like for commercial software
– OSS recommended alongside with commercial software
– internal infrastructure and development catalogue includes
Linux, MySQL, Eclipse, JOnAS, CLIF, CXF, …
– free access to open source alternative package for client PC
– increased share of open source software as alternative
internal open source community
– information sharing (on OSS, licenses – ex GPL v3, expertise …)‫‏‬
– webinars open to all
– weekly watch letter, mailing list, …


IT usage of open source
France Telecom Group uses Linux and open source in its IT
environment
– today’s technology is mature and ready for operational use on
servers
Linux is strongly recommended to run Web Servers,
databases and Java EE Application Servers
– reference for Web Server: Apache
– strong recommendation on JOnAS as Java EE Application Server
– but some use cases need commercial Web Application Servers
to support proprietary applications requiring such products


research & innovation incentives
• availability of open experimentation platforms
• knowledge of technologies deployed in our systems

• contribute to reinforce a community in this domain

• contribute to the creation of an ecosystem

• integrating labs, start-ups and corporate companies
• reinforce dissemination and valorisation of results
• new types of partnership on service infrastructure

• “netiquette”: we use open source software, let us contribute

to its production
• internal use of open source software development principle

for a better software component re-use

deployment & exploitation incentives

availability of software infrastructure with key features
– standard (relies on presence at standardisation bodies for evolution
of standards)‫‏‬
– efficient, secure and reliable
– prone to reactivity and evolutions
mastery of the complete software chain
– from the client to the network
independence from software providers
reduction of deployment and maintenance costs
– licenses, in-house R&D on the products


Orange Labs

Orange Labs - Research & Development – France Telecom and OW2 – 1 April 2009

Orange Labs active contributor
R&D expertise
– in distributed systems architecture, persistence, application
platforms, embedded systems, validation and tests
from research and incubation …
– various internal research projects
– Fractal, JORM, MEDOR, Perseus OW2 projects
… to developments and industrialisation
– internal development projects
– includes support and communication activities
– aims at internal recommendation
– Java EE – JOnAS, JASMINe, JaDOrT
– software engineering – CLIF

Orange Labs and OW2 Projects
ASM byte code manipulation
CLIF load injection and performance measurement
Fractal component-based architecture framework (w/ ref. impl)‫‏‬
JASMINe deployment and management
JOnAS Java EE platform
JORAM JMS MOM
JORM multi-support persistence service
Lomboz Eclipse plug-in for J2EE
MEDOR distributed queries
MobiliTools mobile agents
MonoLog logging and trace
ODIS distributed infrastructure for services
PetALS Enterprise Service Bus
Salomé-TMF test management Legend:
France Telecom leader
Speedo JDO container France Telecom contributor
THINK framework for OS kernels

Orange Labs & cooperative research
OW2 projects are often the dissemination target, or are used
by cooperative research projects
“historical” cooperative projects
– French RNTL/RNRT Arcad, Parol, Impact
– ITEA PEPiTA, OSMOSE
recent cooperative projects related to OW2
– French RNTL SelfWare, JOnES
– French ANR SCORWare, SelfXL, SemEUsE
– IST FP6 SelfMan, FP7 ASPIRE
– CELTIC Servery


JOnAS


JOnAS, a Group-wide success story

introduced in 2003 (3.3 version)‫‏‬
the only AS for development since 2006
– local development platform (JOnAS + Eclipse)‫‏‬
– even for applications deployed on other AS
today 1st Application Server's Choice
– within the Group in France
migrations from other AS to JOnAS
– accompanied by in-house IT support
– very positive feedback


rationale for choosing JOnAS

strategic reasons
– Orange Labs is a strong contributor to the OW2 code base
– JOnAS is more than just a Java EE Application Server
– OW2 develops other interesting components
performance and robustness reasons
– stress tests show very good performances and robustness
– we have the same level of operation as other Java EE Applications
Servers
economical reasons
– JOnAS has an LGPL license and follows a common open source
business model based on support cost


JOnAS adoption and evolutions

internal expert team
– promote and help use of JOnAS in projects
– like other open source components
– associated to an external support
– support contract from Bull
funding of additional developments
– for core JOnAS evolutions
– for France Telecom specific needs


JOnAS industrialisation process
France Telecom's specific JOnAS industrialisation
– specific system parameters settings
– implementation of security rules and standardised naming
conventions
– system scripts to manage JOnAS (incl. clusters/farms)‫‏‬
in-house benchmarks to qualify Linux+JVM+JOnAS
– Web container level: JSP, Servlet technologies
– EJB container level: EJB session stateless technology
– MOM (JMS)‫‏‬
– connectors : JDBC, Jolt (Tuxedo)‫‏‬


in-house usage context of JOnAS

used only on Linux systems
– tested for Red Hat EL 4 and 5.2
– JOnAS 4.10 is now the current release
packaged with Tomcat to offer a complete Java EE platform
– Apache can be used in frontal for large volume of static content
(portals), load balancing and connection pools
– static pages should be served by Apache
clustering and cluster management
– low usage of session replication
– mostly use of centralized administration for JOnAS farm
management


in-house usage of JOnAS examples
more than 300 applications with JOnAS in production
JOnAS on Information System and Services Platforms
(for internal and external customers)‫‏‬
usage examples
– Address book
– MaLigneTV programme guide
– Internal SOA technical bus
– M2M framework
– many internal IS applications
– …


in-house development recommendations
JOnAS is the chosen app. server for Java EE development since 2003
– automatic installation on France Telecom desktop
– used by hundred of developers
current development recommendations includes
– JOnAS 4.10.3
– CXF 2.1 for web services, MDB 2.1 behind JMS queues
– Eclipse Europa 3.3.2 + WTP (alternative to command lines)
– open source plugins : Spring IDE, Subversive, JPA with Hibernate, …
– internal France Telecom plugins : Java EE toolkit, PMD extension, …
– CVS (SVN under way), Maven2
prototyping aligned on dev. recommendations and testbed environment
– includes CLIF load injection, JOnAS-Apache instances, MySQL-Oracle
databases, JMX monitoring…


JOnAS perspectives
2009-2010 programme
– qualification of cluster management to complete the
recommendation (JASMINe)‫‏‬
– dynamic reconfiguration of JOnAS applications on
clusters
– JOnAS 5 recommendation
– deployment in internal Cloud environment
study of other components complementary to
JOnAS
– SOA architecture and tools
– JMS JORAM as an open source alternative


thank you


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