On Wed, 2008-08-27 at 13:32 +0200, Thorsten Scherler wrote: > On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 13:35 +0100, Thorsten Scherler wrote: > > On Sat, 2008-02-23 at 09:16 +0100, Roland Weber wrote: > > > Hi Thorsten, > > > > > > > Is there are still interest to host Droids and sponsor it in incubation > > > > as mentioned in [2]? > > > > > > Definitely :-) Meanwhile, we have created a charter [a] and Droids fits > > > the "build upon and extend" clause. We will expect it to work well with > > > HttpClient 4 eventually, but that doesn't have to be exclusive. > ... > > > > I guess shortly I will finish the docu and a simple example (that I > > develop for the documentation) and we can then decide how we will > > procedure. > > I consider the current development stand of Apache Droids as stable > after enhancing the multi-thread feature and finishing the default > implementation. The default droid and worker is a simple crawler that > scraps a webpage and saves the resources to disk. > > It is highly extensible and in my current work project I am using 5 > different droids that are running very smooth. This droids are extending > the default implementation and are adding business specific logic. > > Some of this droids are connecting to another web site to get some data > and invoke then the parsing of this data to generate an internal > representation of them and send them to an Apache Solr server. Another > droids simply crawls a file system to edit specific files with the > result of a database query. > > I like to start the move to the incubator with Droids with the > HttpComponents project sponsoring it.
Here are some links: docu: http://people.apache.org/~thorsten/droids/ svn: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/labs/droids/trunk salu2 > > WDYT? > > salu2 -- Thorsten Scherler thorsten.at.apache.org Open Source Java consulting, training and solutions --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
