I was asked to give a quick intro about me and what I'm doing with beehive, so here it goes.
I'm a java developer (obviously) and have been programming for as long as I can remember. In recent history, I've been working on Plexus (http://plexus.codehaus.org) a component container with a bunch of support components and XFire (http://xfire.codehaus.org), which is a Java SOAP stack.
I will be working on putting some controls together which will go over at controlhaus.org. These will compromise a SOAP client, Hibernate control and Amazon control. I wanted to get some of your opinions on how these controls would look. Since I am new to controls and you all have developed them for a long time, I figure you'll have a lot of wisdom to share :-).
So how do you envision these controls fitting into Beehive? I have some thoughts already, but would definitely love input/advice.
For the hibernate control I was thinking that annotations could provide an easy way to specify save/update/deletes like the SQL control does. I'd also like to get transaction support in there. I know spring does some really cool stuff with Hibernate and managing transactions automatically [1]. I'd also like to make it easy for users to test their hibernate code by plugging in HSQL [2]. I've found that this works great with my projects.
Also there is the SOAP client. There's already an XMLBeans module for XFire which contains a stub generator to generate clients from WSDL [3]. Still needs some polishing and there are some bugs in StAX/XMLBeans yet which need to be fixed, but its on its way. Any novel thoughts on integrating this into the controls framework?
Finally, thanks for the help and tips so far. I'll be at ApacheCon in a couple weeks and will hopefully have a good chunk of this done to demo :-). I look forward to meeting some of you all there.
Cheers,
- Dan
1. http://www.springframework.org/docs/wiki/Spring_AOP_with_Hibernate.html
2. http://hsqldb.sourceforge.net/
3. Example stub: http://cvs.xfire.codehaus.org/viewrep/xfire/xfire-xmlbeans/src/test/org/codehaus/xfire/xmlbeans/amazon/AWSECommerceServiceClient.java?r=1.1
-- Dan Diephouse Envoi Solutions LLC http://envoisolutions.com/people/dan
