On Tue, 2004-08-10 at 15:31, Farr, Aaron wrote: > Why do I always think of just one more thing to add right after I hit send? > > :) > > One other thought on the Post-Metro Avalon: > > Avalon: The Container|Component|IoC Federation Project > > Another slightly more radical idea on Avalon's role in life after Metro's > departure is that Avalon could serve as a "federation" project for container > related development within Apache. Avalon would provide links and resources > such as documentation and a "commons" for at least the original Avalon > projects (Metro and Excalibur) and potentially for related projects > (Hivemind, Geronimo, etc.). In this case, Avalon would still host and > manage Framework and Component development as mentioned before, but would > also serve as a general gateway to other container, component, or IoC > development.
+1 That's really groovy Aaron. I'm glad you decided to repost to your original email. We should also keep in mind our friends at jcontainer as well as the Spring folks. Avalon should be all about choice. Let the users of Cornerstone or the application deployer decide how and what container to use without having to go in any one particular direction. In the end we'll find different environments will require different containers based on their strengths and weaknesses. This is the way to emerge from an oligopoly into a truely healthy competetive environment where the users are the winners. Alex --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
