Meeting Minutes:  Meeting w/ Prof. Narasimhan
Time: 01/26/04 @ 5:00 - 5:15 PM
Where: HH A303 (Priya's office)
Attendees: Prof. Narasimhan, Ackley, Boyer, Fry, Wilson
Topic: Project Review
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* Priya inquired for purpose of database.
  - Fry described current intention for fault-tolerance
  - Priya suggested possible alternative uses:
     - Recording utilization statics, possibly for client billing
     - Suggested that DB is needed as effective learning tool
       to demonstrate state issues with fault tolerance.
      
* Question of launching process from JAVA
  - Priya has code snippets - will forward to group
  
* Overall: Priya liked the project, and seemed interested
  "No-one has suggested a project like this before"
  
* Fry: requested metrics for "real-time" and "high-performance"
  Priya: think of "real-time" in terms of latency & throughput
         think of performance in terms of scalability (load, congestion)

* Ackley: Do we need a GUI?
  Priya: No

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Assignments:

* Fry:
  - select & configure an MTA (existing or custom) for use now in the 
    SpamAssasin tests, and later in our system tests
		choices: sendmail, exim, courier
  - create reusable test scripts to send mail from on-disk mail archive 
    to MTA, and similar scripts to receive mail after MTA has processed
    it which records statistical processing time information
  - create a simple 'how-to' so rest of team could duplicate work later
  - expected completion: Monday (02/02/04)
  - investigate how to call JAVA from detached process
  - investigate how to spawn detached process from JAVA
  
* Boyer:
  - evaluate various EJB vendors for suitability in our project
  - Select & Install an EJB distribution
  - Successfully run a simple "HelloWorld" distributed app using EJB
  - expected completion: Monday (02/02/04)
  
* Ackley:
  - Prepare Test Plan / Use Cases
  - Update project website documentation
  - expected completion: Friday 01/30/04
  
* Wilson:
  - Define initial middleware EJB client/server interface
  - Initial draft sent to team by: Wed 01/28/04
  - expected completion: Friday 01/30/04