Mike, do you know whether Apache comes up with a combined description
of potential SoC projects across all communities or every ASF project
does it on their own? Do you know where exactly such discussions are
happening @Apache?
I read a bit more on the rules and it looks like the students are
free to propose their own projects (to the mentors??), but mentoring
organizations may come up with a list of things to choose from as
well. I think we should use this opportunity to try out a few cool
ideas that otherwise we won't due to the lack of time. Here is what I
have:
1. A generally usable Java Swing client application(s) based on
Remote Object Persistence technology. A working prototype of such
application is also acceptable, as we can use it as a Cayenne
example. Participants are encouraged to come up with their own
application ideas. Here is a few suggested directions:
* A general data management application
* A multiplayer Java game (using ROP chat channels and shared
sessions)
2. Expose CWS as standard WebService (with WSDL, etc.)
3. Implement a generalized full-text database search query based on
database-specific facilities ... or a DB-neutral case with Lucene.
What I have in mind is this - an ability to mark certain model
attributes as "searchable", and then do what it takes on the DB or
Lucene end to index those fields and then create a custom query
(FullTextSearchQuery implements Query) that can find DataObjects
based on a full-text search criteria.
I am showing my ignorance with (3). Maybe Lucene already has such
facility and I am reinventing the wheel? In any case it would be nice
to have a search engine integrated with Cayenne out of the box.
Andrus
On Apr 15, 2006, at 5:16 AM, Mike Kienenberger wrote:
ASF projects participated in the Summer of Code last year. Or at
least MyFaces did. I seem to recall that we had quite a bit of work
donated through it.
On 4/14/06, Kevin Menard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Would you guys be interested in submitting an application to get some
students working on Cayenne over the summer? Seems like it might
be a
good way to drum up some more support and get the name out there a
bit
more. I'm not sure how it works being an ASF project now, though.
--
Kevin
