On Thu, 2002-06-20 at 18:59, Berin Loritsch wrote: > I am ready to start writing the example I will be using for my upcomming > book "Java Component Oriented Programming". I have the ability to host > the code online in an open source environement. I would like to have > it hosted by Apache if we like the concept. Here is the concept: > > InfoMover (better name?) > --------- > > * Manages several different jobs. > * A job can be invoked by a set schedule, by an incomming connection, > or manually (through an interface). > * Each job describes how to process a transaction. > * The transaction can originate from a group of text files, a database, > a SOAP request, etc. > * A transaction has a group of related records, which in turn have a > group of fields. > * A transaction can have 0..n transformations made on the data. In > practice this will be like converting > y|y|y|n|y > to multiple records (i.e. multiplexing and demultiplexing records). > * A transaction ends by saving the transaction to any of the types > of information that were mentioned in bullet 4. > > The biggest thing is that I want to develop the app so that I can > document the design decisions behind it, package it up, and then > allow the thing to be embraced and extended by the greater Apache > community. > > It will be built on Phoenix, using Cornerstone, Excalibur, and of > course Framework. > > Any thoughts?
cool. Put it in avalon-apps, I say =) >From your description, this sounds like a "transactional declaritive data transformer" type of component. Sounds like a complex example to me...gonna be a big book, innit? Do avalon developers get free copies? :-P cheers, - Leo -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
