Boris Kraft wrote:
You are correct, the level of effort would be substantial, but I can
easily envision a Magnolia 3.0 release with a revised Spring-enabled
Ioc/AOP architecture that provides a truly flexible, lightweight
solution that can be deployed into any J2EE server environment and
easily wired up to leverage different datasources, transaction
engines, JCR implementations, logging frameworks, security mechanisms,
etc..
That sounds great, but why would I want to do that? Flexibility and
Comfort are opposite characteristics, no? To take your idea one step
further: why not provide an XML transformer as the sole core of Magnolia
and everything else is defined in XML and XSL? Remember: everything in
life is a transformation. Ultimate flexibility! Super-lightweight!
Totally unusable!
People are turning towards magnolia more and more. And because it's java, also
lot of highly skilled developers start to work with magnolia. I think, they all
share my problems when I started to work with magnolia. Take the last post of
Kyle Gabhart regarding 'New Feature: Publisher role', see
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.cms.magnolia.devel/4269. Those who initially
developed magnolia feel comfortable with the magnolia code. Those who try to
dig into magnolia would appreciate to have some kind of standardized, and I
repeat well-known, proven framework. Instead we need to waste time on a
home-grown 'framework' which gets refactored and refactored again. If you have
special project requirements and need to extend magnolia it can become a
nightmare to keep up with the changes in magnolia.
If you really want the community to boost, maybe you're pov is taken from the
wrong side. Shouldn't you take more care about your community, especially about
those who potentially take further magnolia: skilled java developers, your
community! Not only ask what developers can do for magnolia, also ask what
magnolia can do for developers.
Nevertheless, as a user I enjoy magnolia.
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Cheers,
Michael
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