Servicification

Servicification

Summary

The Chromium codebase now supports many platforms and use cases. In response, we need to migrate the code base to a more modular, service-oriented architecture. This will produce reusable and decoupled components while also reducing duplication. It also allows the Chrome team and other groups to experiment with new features without needing to modify Chrome.

 

Contact

mailing list: services-dev@chromium.org

Background

• design doc
• presentation & slide deck (both internal only)
• how to create a service
• Mandoline: experimental browser that we prototyped these ideas in

Major projects

As part of this effort, we are refactoring existing components of Chromium into isolated services. Here are some of the major projects underway:

 

UI Service

UI (aka MUS)

mailing list: mustash-dev@chromium.org

 

Network Service

Network

mailing list: network-service-dev@chromium.org
sherifing notes
conversion cheat sheet 
bug triaging instructions

 

Device Service˜

Device

 

Identity Service

Identity

Conversion cheat sheet

mailing list: identity-service-dev@chromium.org

 

Past Projects

• Prefs
• Process/Sandbox

 

A prioritized list of projects that still need to be done is available.

 

Code Location

src/services/