On Aug 22, 2007, at 11:52 AM, David Jencks wrote:
I would like to see all the assemblies except the framework
assembly be constructed by adding plugins to the framework
assembly. Just because there has been no progress on this goal in
the last year...
I definitely agree with your vision here. My main reservation with
taking on that line of thought was, like you said, the lack of
progress on the framework += customizations approach since the
zzzzj2ee-installer (sorry, bad joke). To be fair though I should
acknowledge that we have been just a little distracted on that JEE5
thing. :-)
There are some issues like how OSGI, xbean, and spring can/should/
will affect our framework and plugin strategy, and that hurts me poor
brain. Good thing we have lots of clever people contributing to this
project. Now is a good time to start those discussions and set our
sites on a new goal. This is one I think we can all rally around
and contribute to in various ways.
I think we are pretty close to having enough pieces lined up so we
can actually do this, so I'm very definitely against removing this
assembly. We could remove all the others to
spur on this process :-)
That just might do the trick!
Best wishes,
Paul
