On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 6:35 PM, Oleg Kalnichevski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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. >> >> > +1 to HC sponsoring Droids' incubation. I am willing to participate in the > incubation process and help integrate Droids into HC. > > Cheers > > Oleg > > Sounds good to me. ...ant
