Section: New Results

Development of SAMSON Connect

Participants : Mohamed Yengui, Jocelyn Gate, Stephane Redon.

We have continued the development of SAMSON Connect (Figure 15 , https://www.samson-connect.net ), the online platform for distributing SAMSON and SAMSON Elements (modules for SAMSON). SAMSON Connect is a web application, associated to a database, that functions as the well-known stores for mobile Apps (e.g. Google Play, the Apple App store, etc.). Users may create an account, download SAMSON, and add SAMSON Elements to their configuration based on their needs (Figure 16 ). Adding a SAMSON Element is performed in just one click (to the Add button of the corresponding SAMSON Element), and the SAMSON Element is installed when the user restarts SAMSON. Users may also request an upgrade to a Developer status, after which they can download the SAMSON Software Development Kit used to develop SAMSON Elements. They may then upload their SAMSON Elements to SAMSON Connect in order to share them. The platform opened in March 2015 to release the first beta version of SAMSON. We also produced some video tutorials for SAMSON (Figure 17 ).

Figure 15. The home page of SAMSON Connect (https://www.samson-connect.net )

Figure 16. The Elements page, where users may add SAMSON Elements (modules) to their configuration (https://www.samson-connect.net )

Figure 17. The documentation page on SAMSON Connect (https://www.samson-connect.net )

On the back-office of SAMSON Connect, we added several functionalities that facilitate publishing new versions of SAMSON and SAMSON Elements (e.g. choosing default SAMSON Elements), email users based on their account type (user, developer, etc.), OS, etc. We also turned to automatic acceptance of new user accounts (once they validate their email address). We also updated the SAMSON web service to enable more message types and retrieve information about the server, the database, etc.