Hi Excalibur list (this is my fist post),
This is a must. Either in the way pico have it, or in some use cases for which Excalibur could be used. The examples in the repository are far from beeing useful, because they are too simple and just show a startup. A better Swing/SWT example, a simple "this-is-my-server-for-some-service" example and something like this would be very useful.1. A series of short tutorials: We could create a couple short tutorials/introductions somewhat like Picocontainer's "One minute description,Two minute tutorial,Five minute introduction" set. These could be placed in the wiki.
I think this isn't that good. It may help to setup a project for an experienced Excalibur developer, but the entry barrier isn't lowered with that.2. Maven plugins like Turbine's META [1]: What about creating a maven plugin that could setup a Fortress or ECM development environment in one command.
That is a good one I think. With a binary distro a new developer would not have to bother with the dependencies, wich is quite nerving.3. A simple binary distribution: Unzipping the distribution would give you all the libraries, example configuration files and the Java Service Wrapper already setup. Maybe you could have a couple versions: a lightweight distro which only has a trivial example included versus a "Kitchen Sink" distro that shows how you can tie several components together.
That sounds interesting also, but again IMHO it is for more experienced developers.4. Eclipse Plugins: I'm doing some plugin development now and maybe later this year I can write some custom editors for role and configuration files or for generating meta-data or maybe even a graphical editor for wiring up the container (drag and drop the component roles). I'm not sure what type of plugin would be useful, so I'd appreciate some ideas.
Excalibur is a big tool and if you give 'newbies' tools wich generate the neccessary code in a certain way they could use it but don't get the concept of it and will never learn it like when they write it by hand.
Also 5. Documentation:
I think some more and more and much more documentation in each direction would greatly help developing with Excalibur.
Currently most things I have to figure out by searching/looking through the sources.
Some documentation of the concept of containers, components and roles would help clear new developers minds.
Also some documentation of the big picture behind Excalibur would greatly help I think.
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