On Friday 30 July 2010 7:22:02 am Dan Haywood wrote: > Hi Manos, > > On 27/07/2010 13:57, Emmanouil Batsis (Manos) wrote: > > Hello Dan, > > > > On 07/21/2010 12:56 PM, Dan Haywood wrote: > >> So: the Apache Isis (?) project will provide the ability to ... > > > > Sounds cool. ... Anyway, I checked out the provided URLs and I'm > > having a really hard time understanding the plumbing used. Perhaps > > some examples would help people (and me!) figure out if they are > > interested in participating. > > Thanks for the feedback; which means that (a) we should have better info > on the NOF/Isis website, and (b) I should include it in the incubator > proposal. > > But to answer your question right here: > * Naked Objects core (http://www.nakedobjects.org/core) has very few > dependencies; indeed when originally written it depended only on crimson > and on log4j, which is why I was able to cross-compile it to .NET as a > J# project from which the commercial .NET version eventually emerged. > * right now the core depends on Apache commons, and I've recently > started using google collections since it's so nice. We've also got a > discussion going on to start using Google Guice in order to remove some > of the boilerplate, though a refinement of that will be to use > JSR299/330 annotations. > * Another thing for the roadmap is to introduce instrumentation, > probably via JMX. Another possibility is to expose more clearly the > transactional boundaries so that we can leverage JTA services (at the > moment the transaction management stuff is pretty much home grown); this > will allow for transactional domain services. > > The plugins ((http://www.nakedobjects.org/plugins) and the sister > projects (http://starobjects.org) do have more dependencies: > * the berkeleyDB persistor is a persistor for Oracle Berkely > * the JPA persistor uses Hiberate under the covers; one of the tasks > during incubation will be to replace this with OpenJPA (since Hibernate > is LGPL) > * the Wicket viewer uses Apache Wicket, obviously > * the RESTful viewer uses JBoss RestEasy; again I'll need to change this > to an Apache-license compatible library (probably Jersey)
The latest release of RestEasy changed their license to Apache license so if you update, that wouldn't be an issue. That said, I would still recommend either Apache CXF or Apache Wink which are both good JAX-RS compliant implementations developed here at Apache. Dan > > One of the things that's nice about the architecture is that it's easy > to add in new viewers/persistors based on XYZ technology. One of the > commentators here (Ulrich) has mentioned an interest in a Tapestry > viewer, which would be great; I'm also in discussion with someone > offline about a Vaadin viewer. I'm kinda hoping that during incubation > we might find someone who's might like to write a persistor based on one > of those trendy NoSQL databases such as CouchDB or MongoDB, or perhaps > Apache Cassandra or something from the Hadoop family > > Hope that's useful (and hope that inspires people/you) to get involved, > Cheers > > Dan > > > Cheers, > > > > Manos -- Daniel Kulp dk...@apache.org http://dankulp.com/blog --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
