Hi Daniel, > 1) We make easer scripting tools so that others can make websites with it. taglibs/functions,objectbuilders, > defining all in xml instead of sql or java code are examples of this. Its felt dat non java programmers > should be able to make or atleast change the products created with it.
I have been working now with MMBase for more than 6 years and in this time i didn't see one non-java-programmer who was able to efficiently use MMBase. Also the present installed base of MMBase websites shows that you need to have at least basic (Java) development skills to make something nice with MMBase. Promising that MMBase can be used by script kiddies is not fair at the moment and i think it also should not be our main goal for the future. For script kiddies there are other products which are more applicable. The strong points of MMBase are object orientation and extendibility. So in my opinion our main effort for the coming two years should be to be further improve the API and implementing a component framework. In this way we will be able to more efficiently develop and share components. Yes i also love new tags, taglibs, and development tools, but i don't believe these will be the things that will make MMBase more successful in the future. Regards, Henk. _______________________________________________ Developers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.mmbase.org/mailman/listinfo/developers
