I agree Aaron. And Berin I think you should come back and help us make that happen. Simplicity is a wonderful thing.
Alex > -----Original Message----- > From: Farr, Aaron [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2004 11:46 AM > To: 'Avalon Developers List' > Subject: RE: Zen Framework (was Re: [avalon] roadmap) > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Niclas Hedhman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > "Thank you, thank you, thank you... I would like to thank Berin > Loritsch > > for > > his marvelous insight of 'The Simplest Thing that can work', and I would > > like > > to .... " > > :) > > All tongue-in-cheek comments aside, I think Berin has a point and whether > it > happens here or at D-Haven or wherever, it is a good idea. Couple of > quick > comments: > > * I think the 'goal' of Merlin to be very simple, especially for the > users. How close we are to that goal is perhaps another thing. > > * I would bet that Stephen (and perhaps some of the other developers) > would see OSGi [1] as a competitor to Avalon/Merlin more than > PicoContainer, > Jicarilla, Spring and Hivemind. At least that is the impression I get > seeing the current direction and push. > > Can Merlin be a 'Zen Framework'? > Should we jump to Java 1.5? Now? Ever? > Can we be scalable enough to compare to both Pico and OSGi? > > I'm not sure at the moment, but that's the point of this discussion. > > J. Aaron Farr > SONY ELECTRONICS > DDP-CIM > (724) 696-7653 > > [1] http://www.osgi.org/ > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
