Hello,
I'm interested in participating in Google Summer of Code this year and
I want to contribute to the Castor project.
First, I'm going to briefly introduce myself.
My name is Philipp Erlacher and I am 23 years old. I am an undergraduate
student at the Vienna University of Technology
and my major subject is Software & Information Engineering. I am going
to be graduating in January 2011.
Second, I am interested in doing the "StaX for un-/marshaling" project.
In the course this project, some interesting tasks may arise which I
would like to face:
* separating the MarshalHandler functionality into two layers,
* extending the functionality so that StaX is supported within the XML
data binding framework itself
* evaluating the "partial support for using StaX" and checking whether
to reuse existing code or to rewrite it
* making sure that the greens remains green
* investigating other projects that recently added support for StaX,
like Apache Cocoon
Third, what to I expect to gain from the contribution to Castor?
* knowledge about Castor,
* usage of test driven development and a deepened understanding for
their importance
* having many well tested patches committed,
* having the confidence, that my produced code will help Castor users
and developers,
* being fluent in open source community communication,
* having an awesome 40-hour summer job,
* getting experienced
* fun (learning, reading, coding, thinking = fun)
As Castor is probably "the shortest path between Java objects, XML
documents and relational tables"
I am going to improve my skills in those areas.
Warm regards,
Philipp
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