Symphony Software Foundation Desktop Wrapper Working Group Update
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The document provides an update on the Symphony Desktop Client Framework (Minuet) working group. It discusses: 1) Minuet has been open sourced to the Foundation. It was originally built by GS and should be differentiated from the Symphony desktop client application. 2) The working group will steward the Minuet framework, guide its development, and govern its APIs to improve integration with other technologies and drive standardization. 3) The Foundation and GS are working to contribute the Minuet source code publicly by the end of May with known issues logged. GS will merge ongoing updates in coming months.
Symphony Software Foundation Desktop Wrapper Working Group Update
- 1. Proprietary and Confidential Desktop Wrapper Working Group Update May 17th 2016, New York James Turck Credit Suisse james.turck@credit-suisse.com 1
- 2. 2 The Symphony Desktop Client Framework (aka Minuet) has been open sourced to the Foundation. The Technology was originally built by GS (named Paragon) Minuet should be differentiated from the Symphony desktop client application – the desktop client is an HTML application that is hosted within Minuet (or the Browser). The working group is concerned with concrete functionality of the Minuet Framework, its technical APIs and its integration capability and not the Symphony specific application hosted within it. Introduction
- 3. 3 Minuet is an HTML5 container that can deliver on and offline packaged applications that include JS, HTML and native code. Minuet uses a number of OSS projects and is based on CEF. Minuet includes some desktop integration capabilities and a messaging hub for integration which Symphony use to expose specific symphony based APIs. Overview Native App (eg Java App) Any garden variety websock and json lib Web Browser Your Web App (html, CSS,Javascript) meow.js Websocket Websocket Websocket Message Broker(localhost:65534) Minuet Symphony MessageBroker Plugin SymphonyInterop.js The messaging hub allows for cross App communication between native, browser and minuet based apps Similar technologies: OpenFin, Electron, nw.js
- 4. 4 The group will act as the steward of the Minuet Desktop Framework and integration capability, agreeing on the contribution mechanism and any other open source mechanics, and governing contributions as necessary. The group will also guide developments of Minuet to make it as attractive as possible in order to encourage adoption. The group will seek to guide and govern the Minuet APIs, with a specific goal to improve consistency for integration with other similar technologies and in the wider context help to drive standardisation across the financial services industry such that applications such as Symphony might be hosted in different containers/frameworks. WG Objectives
- 5. 5 The Foundation team and GS are working through the process of ensuring a clean contribution of the Minuet source code. The WG voted on 5th May to take the “current” cut of the code and make it public The goal is to have this public version of the code contributed with various known issues logged by end of May GS are working on merging various updates which will appear in the next few months The overall contribution process is currently under discussion Open Source Status
- 6. 6 Create sub WGs? 1 : Manage Minuet contribution Group 2 : Focus on the Container API standardisation Improve Tooling? Tracking of WG projects and action items? Meetings? Make sure we have a dial in that works Suggestions? How do we improve?