Re: [Reactor for CF] Reactor querying the DB schema for every query (reposting in correct place this time, hopefully :-)

[Adam Cameron]

Point taken Doug.

I guess I'm used to software that *needs* attention all the time, so it's 
always getting nudges, hotfixes, service packs etc (not *my* code, you 
understand... ;-).  So it's a bit of a foreign concept when software doesn't 
need attention.

That said, obviously I didn't know one way or the other until Nathan's 
comment; so I guess I'll just forget I read that (sorry Nathan), and truck 
on "business as usual".

I really didn't want to have to go have a closer look @ Transfer or... 
err... that PU thing, so this is good news.

Cheers.

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From: Doug Hughes
Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2008 12:53 PM
To: reactor@reactorframework.com
Subject: Re: [Reactor for CF] Reactor querying the DB schema for every query 
(reposting in correct place this time, hopefully :-)


Argh.  I hate that people consider is stagnating.  I admit I could be more 
involved and active, but frankly it works.  Why mess with it too much?

I have been considering naming a PM for the project and other related roles 
so that people don't perceive a lack of motion.  I've also considered a few 
different releases of versions of reactor (lite, etc).    Heck, I was 
talking to Chris Scott about automating Flex integration via ColdSpring.

Anyhow, my flight is boarding and I've got to run.  Reactor = good now, but 
needs to be called a 1.0.  I want better docs and a few bug fixes before I 
do that.

Doug


On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 4:18 AM, Adam Cameron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Hi Nathan: thanks for the response.

Thanks for the heads-up on the status of Reactor.  I wasn't aware that it 
wasn't an actively developed piece of work.  Well: as you say and as Doug 
demonstrated, there is *some* activity, but from what you say it sounds like 
it's kinda stagnating.  That's a pity.

I had a look at Transfer and Illudium pu-36, and neither seemed to be quite 
implementing things how I figured they ought to be implemented, and I think 
in both cases each had some things missing from what I would consider the 
essential body of work (for what each is delivering, which obviously is 
different: I'm not trying to compare apples to oranges to kiwifruit here). 
That said, my opinion was based on the high-level docs, and I've not really 
had a crack at either of them, so perhaps I should not be too quick to 
judge.

However I have to say that this has made me sceptical as to whether Reactor 
is going to be a good fit for us, so I might need to take a closer look at 
these other options, and try to come up with some manner of like-for-like 
(as much as it can be done) assessment of all three.

I realise I'm coming across as a "take take take" sort of person in regards 
to this.  I'm a competent (sometimes I like to think "more than competent"; 
sometimes not ;-) CF developer, and certainly understand what's going on 
under the hood of Reactor, so I kind of feel guilty about not putting my 
hand up to help with the project.  The sad truth is that I am mostly a 9-5 
developer (well... less "5" and more "6" or "7"), and kinda want to keep it 
that way.  I help out on the Adobe forums, pitch my oar into people's blogs 
occasionally, and potter around with things after hours sometimes when 
there's a need to (like this exploration of Model Glue, ColdSpring and 
Reactor I'm currently doing), but I know I would never be dedicated enough 
to a cause to really be of any use to an open source project.  Just as 
well - for my sake - there's people who are a bit more altruistic than me, I 
s'pose.

In good news, though: once I did a global search and replace in my sample 
code of "objectName" for "objectAlias", and reverted *out* my changes to the 
ColdSpring.xml to get the reactor beans to work (that mucking around with 
aliases I mentioned earlier): everything is going fine in my sample code 
now: in production mode, I am not seeing any re-querying of the DB schema, 
and the files are being written to the queries directory correctly.  So this 
makes me happy.

Cheers for everyone's help.


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