Hi EveryOne,
I am glad to share with you that I have been accepted to participate in Google Summer of Code 2009 with *'The Codehaus'* under the supervision of *Ralf Joachim* . To introduce myself, I am doing Erasmus Mundus MSc in Network and E-business centered computing since Oct-2008. Previously I was research fellow for one year at European Organization for Nuclear Research, CERN Switzerland. As a CERN Fellow I worked with Monte Carlo (MC) development team of CMS Experiment at CERN which is working on design and implementation of the new CMS Tier0 system, ProdAgent. During my stay at CERN I got selected for CERN school of Computing (CSC-08 Norway) and attended under full scholarship. Before joining CERN, I worked as Research Associate in IEPM (Internet End to End Performance Monitoring) project being conducted in collaboration with the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, USA and National University of Sciences & Technology, Pakistan. In GSoC 2009, I am looking forward to contribute in Castor Project. The abstract of the proposed project is: "Castor is an Open Source data binding framework for Java. It provides Java-XML binding and Java-SQL Persistence etc. The object query language supported by Castor is very limited. Castor uses descriptor classes at every step of query construction and for fetching of results which is an overhead and second problem is to keep the SQL column list passed, to be in synchronization with the sequence of columns in the Resultset. To address these problems, there is a need to standardize the query engine. " I will try to keep myself in touch on the mailing list and will ask about your kind support and help in case of any problems during the project development. Thanks. Best Regards, Ahmad http://cern.ch/ahmadh/portfolio/
