Hi Francis, first thanks for reporting the bug in the SampleConfig - that's definitely a good start to contribute :-)!
As Rainer already stated, the main goal for release 2.0.5 (and 1.0.5 of struts extension respectively) should be to "mavenize" the empire-db source code. This doesn't require deep insight into empire-db, but a good knowledge of Maven. So if you feel comfortable with Maven (or you want to get comfortable :-) then this would be great. To start I'd look into other Apache (Incubator) projects to see how they used Maven. By "mavenizing" empire-db we could get rid of some dependencies and we'd overcome the trouble with proprietary db drivers, because the user could download them from the Maven repository (we can't provide proprietary drivers in the Apache svn of course). There are a lot of other things that could be done for empire-db that need some more insight into the code, for example: - Implementing drivers for other databases (DerbyDB comes to mind as it's also an Apache project) -> a starting point would be to take a closer look at the *Driver* classes in the empire-db project, maybe even starting with a copy of one of these as a "template" - Searching and reporting bugs and/or improvements - Creating "extensions" for other web/gui frameworks to leverage the meta data provided by empire-db -> this is of course quite time consuming and needs quite good knowledge of the empire-db components and the targeted web/gui framework So far, I hope I could help a little bit any contribution and questions are welcome, so don't hesitate to post it here Greetings jorg > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: Francis De Brabandere [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Gesendet: Sonntag, 9. November 2008 17:20 > An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [email protected] > Betreff: Re: Maven support for the upcoming 2.0.5 release > > I might be willing to help out but I have not even tried empire-db > yet... What kind of skills are you looking for? > > Regards > > Francis > > On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 12:34 PM, Rainer Döbele <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > For the upcoming Empire-db 2.0.5. release we plan to provide Maven > support. > > > > > > > > We are however still struggling to find someone with good Maven > skills who is willing to help us with that task. > > > > > > > > So if anyone out there is good with Maven and has the time and will > to support us, we would very much appreciate to hear from you. > > > > > > > > Rainer > > > > > > > > -- > http://www.somatik.be > Microsoft gives you windows, Linux gives you the whole house.
