Martin Cooper wrote:
"Jun Yang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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In the Jetspeed Cornerstone Concepts paper, we have a number of
Comparison to Other Work boxes for the purpose of comparing it with
other (unamed) frameworks and pointing out the unique features of
Cornerstone. We attempted at a comprehensive comparison with Hivemind,
Spring and Pico Container and found it too difficult because it requires
much more than superficial knowledge of those frameworks. It will be a
great thing if experts of those frameworks can contribute their views.
I don't mean to be provocative here, but if Cornerstone is sufficiently
general to warrant comparison with such frameworks as HiveMind, Spring and
PicoContainer (which does appear to be the case, from the concepts paper and
presentation), then why would you want to bury / hide it inside of Jetspeed?
No, I don't think the intention is to bury it under Jetspeed at all.
Jetspeed people were the first to recognize its value and it was
certainly a great milestone in the life of Cornerstone to make it open
source and Jetspeed CVS was the best first choice for that purpose.
Now that Cornerstone is part of the Jetspeed CVS repo, what is the thinking
on its development going forward? I'm curious about whether it will be
integrated into Jetspeed to the point where it would not be useful as a
standalone component, or if the goal is to keep it (semi-)independent. While
I understand that mass customisation is clearly a factor in portal-land,
that's not the only space to which it applies, and I can see a use for such
a framework in non-portal applications as well.
Cornerstone will be an independent layer underneath Jetspeed and can be
used in any other project.
In general, I guess I'd just like to better understand the relationship
between Jetspeed and Cornerstone. (I'm not currently a Jetspeed user, but
lurk on this list because of my interest in Pluto and its relationship with
Jetspeed 2 - and now, possibly, Cornerstone. ;)
The relationship is simple: Cornerstone is a generic framework that
Jetspeed can build on top of. Jetspeed is an application (hopefully a
showcase (I am excited about this)) of Cornerstone.
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Martin Cooper
Jun
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