Hi Chad, Saturday, April 30, 2005, 10:10:12 PM, you wrote:
CB> Hey Guys, CB> If no one has any objections I'd like to drop the car rental CB> sample. Its never maintained (too hard to maintain) and in my CB> opinion just too complex of a sample to begin with (plus none of CB> the logic has even been added yet to to the rewritten version). I'd like to voice my objections without automatically volunteering to maintain the sample from now on! :-) I think it is quite a nice app: you can define car types and cars, let people reserve and rent them, let the personnel hand them out to drivers, take them back, and so on. It is more than the typical "one use case, one service, three entities" kind of sample (somebody on the user list said recently, he thinks it is a real good sample). It contains about 30 diagrams or so, right? Sure, it's too complex for AndroMDA beginners but it's exactly right for somebody who has already understood the basics and wants to see some more real tasty beef. It could be to AndroMDA what Petshop is to Java. I'm the original author of that thing, that's why I still feel a little love for it. :-) When I left it, it was written with the old EJB cartridge and the old Struts cartridge and could run three use cases, you could add cars and rent them. Now it seems as if it has already been ported to use modern cartridges like Spring and BPM4Struts! In which state is it now? Does it run at all? Does it still support at the least the three core use cases: register a new car type, register a new car, reserve/rent a car? And: Chad, why do you think it is hard to maintain, the model still looks quite nice! I think what it really needs is a story behind it: the forms should display some help text that tells the user how to play with it. It also needs a few bitmaps of real cars so that the user needs fewer fantasy than she needs today. Example: When registering a new type of car, the user in the admin role should be able to upload a bitmap image of the new car. Later, when a user in the customer role tries to reserve a car, the bitmap image should be shown again. I feel we should not drop this sample right away - maybe, there is someone out there on the list who would like to maintain it in the future. At least, we could move the sample to the contrib directory so that anybody could maintain it in the sandbox - we can move it back into the official dist when it runs perfectly again. I'll be happy to help a potential maintainer to understand and implement the story behind this sample. Thoughts? Cheers... Matthias P.S.: Peter Friese or Harald Weyhing, how about you? Any other volunteers on the list here? --- Matthias Bohlen "Consulting that helps project teams to succeed..." Internet: http://www.mbohlen.de/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +49 (170) 772 8545 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: NEC IT Guy Games. Get your fingers limbered up and give it your best shot. 4 great events, 4 opportunities to win big! Highest score wins.NEC IT Guy Games. Play to win an NEC 61 plasma display. Visit http://www.necitguy.com/?r=20 _______________________________________________ Andromda-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/andromda-devel
