Either NetBeans or Eclipse maybe?
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jay Askren
Sent: Monday, July 24, 2006 8:43 AM
To: LDS Open Source Software
Subject: [Ldsoss] LDS OSS Framework
There was quite a bit of talk about the Scouting open source
software. The Emergency Preparedness project I'm working on has many of
the same issues:
For our users, sometimes they may be online other times they may not
be. I chose not to create a web application in order to avoid security
concerns and to make installation easier. I make use of web services in my
app. Currently, I just use the web services to do geocoding so I can add
GIS capabilities, but I was thinking about using them for other things as
well. It seems that at the heart of both of these apps and other
potential LDS OSS apps, they do the same thing. They store information
about some people in the ward and potentially people not in the ward and allow
the users to edit the information. They may have other tools built on top
of the basic functionality.
It would be nice to build a basic LDS-OSS system that was just a framework
that took care of the common concerns of LDS applications, and then plugins
could be built to address specific problems. The core system might for
instance take care of reading information from MLS, interacting with an embedded
database, printing, making installation and updating of the software easy, and
who knows what else. Plugins might be added to store domain specific
information(Boy Scout stuff versus Emergency Preparedness info, etc...), add GIS
capabilities, sync with a database at Church Headquarters using web services,
and whatever else would need to be added in the future. That way other
apps could take advantage of the various plugins. Does anyone have
interest/experience building this kind of plugin based system? What do
people think?
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