Peter, nice! seams interessting.
btw. have you looked at: http://jakarta.apache.org/hivemind/ Regards, Matthias > -----Original Message----- > From: Peter A. Pilgrim [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2004 8:12 AM > To: Struts Developers List > Subject: [ANN] Bridgetown IoC Framework > > > > Hi > > I have been quietly working on my own Inversion of Control > lightweight framework over the last couple of months. > > My itch was scratched when I suddenly realised that ``Commons > BeanUtils'' and ``Common Digester'' could be simply combined > together into a bean assembly factory. An assembly factory > could manage service beans in a lightweight container. > Services could then be retrieved by name, and one doesn't > have to worry about connecting different services together. > Experiments showed that this idea was pretty cool and have > implemented property and method dependency injection (aka > ``BeanUtils'' and ``MethodUtils''). [Constructor injection is > on the todo list. ] > > I am at the point where the current codebase is stable enough > for development, but if I want the container to be more > useful, then I need to open- source the project. It would > allow others to write Dynamic proxy service beans, integrate > with Struts 1.2/2+, or extend with AOP library, or whatever > persistence layer EJB 3.0 decides to become. It cannot be > down by just one man writing software. As an independent > consultant I simply have not got the time to build everything. > > Moreover, I intend to follow the Struts style ``open > integration'' philosophy that should allow Bridgetown IoC > container to be added any other framework. (I intend add > support to the Expresso Framework in the near term, since I > am a core committer there) > > So my simple IoC Test Container became ``Bridgetown IoC''. I > uploaded the source code to ``Sourceforge'' and slapped on it > an Apache License 2.0 badge. The software is ALPHA quality > but it compiles and run with Eclipse SDK 3, and there are > junit test and a couple of examples. > > > `` http://bridgetown.sf.net '' is the hook. > > > I'd like publicly thank the man, Craig McClanahan, for his > two inventions `BeanUtils' and `Digester'. Without those two > components it just wouldn't have happened. > > > Enjoy baby bop# > > -- > Peter Pilgrim > __ _____ _____ _____ > / //__ // ___// ___/ + Serverside Java > / /___/ // /__ / /__ + Struts > / // ___// ___// ___/ + Expresso Committer > __/ // /__ / /__ / /__ + Independent Contractor > /___//____//____//____/ + Intrinsic Motivation > On Line Resume http://jroller.com/page/peter_pilgrim > || > \\===> `` http://www.xenonsoft.demon.co.uk/no-it-striker.html '' > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
