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! :-)
this means me and Chad will need to take care of it .. and this means Chad :-)
so that's why he raised the issue in the first place :-)
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 agree a more elaborate sample is a good thing, but have you looked at the code recently ?
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!
... snip snip ... 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.
sounds like a plan
-- Wouter
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