I'm quite +1 on all of those, especially #3... Cheers!
On Nov 16, 2011, at 7:23, Gert Vanthienen <[email protected]> wrote: > L.S., > > > While reviewing the recent changes in the assembly types, there were a few > things in the assemblies and examples that caught my attention and that I'd > like to improve... > > 1. How about reorganizing the examples into subdirectories to make things a > bit more clear? E.g. put all the Karaf demo in examples/karaf/*, put the > basic Camel demos in examples/camel/*, put the CXF and Camel-CXF demos in > examples/cxf/*, ... I think it might make the distinction between some of > the examples a bit more clear and I'm also planning to spend a day writing > an 'Examples guide' somewhere this week or next, so it would match the > chapters of that guide pretty nicely ;) > > 2. Do we want/need to ship the JBI examples in the basic assembly? We > still want to ship them in the JBI assembly, but for the basic assembly I > think it would be better if we add a few more Camel/CXF/ActiveMQ examples > instead of confusing people with those JBI examples. > > 3. Is there any good reason to keep the assemblies in the NMR? They're > just causing extra maintenance overhead and I don't think I've ever seen > anyone using them. Moreover, some of the examples in there (e.g. the > clustering example) actually need bits and pieces from the ServiceMix > features assembly to function properly, so I would propose to move the > examples to the features project and build the NMR as a set of bundles we > use in ServiceMix instead of doing the extra assembly there. > > 4. We are getting a lot of questions about people trying the HTTP based > examples with browser that don't support the cross-site HTTP requests if > they just open the HTML files from disk. What would we do to fix that for > them? Would it be an option to add an 'examples' webapp that hosts these > test HTML files (and perhaps even has a button where you can > install/uninstall the example features)? > > > Regards, > > Gert Vanthienen > ------------------------ > FuseSource > Web: http://fusesource.com > Blog: http://gertvanthienen.blogspot.com/
