The Microsoft announcement referred to in the quoted post, is that really the case? Will Microsoft fight against any compatible implementation of WCF and WPF?
Regards, Matthijs ter Woord ----- Original Message ----- From: "Elliott Draper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]>; <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, September 02, 2005 2:10 AM Subject: [Mono-list] Amber Communications Framework > Hello everyone, > > A while back, I joined the development team of a project that was then > called "MonoIndigo". This was designed to be a port of Microsoft's Indigo > framework (now known as the Windows Communication Foundation). As many of > you know, Microsoft made it clear that any kind of direct port of Indigo > was not going to be accepted, and would be in breach of IP regulations. > Likewise, the same would apply for Avalon (now known as the Windows > Presentation Foundation I believe). > > The main aim of that project, was to EXTEND Indigo's appeal, by making > the same code, unchanged, run on any platform that Mono run's on. Seeing > as this can no longer be the case, the project was changed, re-named, and > is no longer a direct port of Indigo. I personally feel we are lacking a > decent, service oriented framework for helping to develop client/server > applications under Mono, and I would like still to rectify that with the > Amber project. It's main aim is to make a functional useful messaging and > communication platform, running under either .Net/Mono, that takes the > hassle out of writing the actual communication layer of a server/client > app, allowing the developer to rely on the framework to perform the > communications, while they concentrate on the specifics of his/her > application. > > Anyway, enough waffle, the point of this e-mail is simply to see if anyone > else would be interested in working on such an open source effort, as > currently our development team is severely lacking, and with our current > resources it'll take us years to get to any kind of point where we are > able to release! So if any like-minded individuals are up for helping to > build a decent communications platform, hopefully benefitting the > community, and meanwhile providing a worthy rival to the Microsoft Windows > Communication Foundation, then please get in contact with me, the more the > merrier! We'll need developers, testers, people to help with > documentation, etc... > > In the meantime, here are a few project links: > -- A wiki I setup for the project: > http://wiki.eldiablo.co.uk/amber/FrontPage > -- The project page on NovellForge: > http://forge.novell.com/modules/xfmod/project/?amber > > Any questions, discussion, whatever, don't hesitate to drop me a mail. > > Cheers, > -= El =- > _______________________________________________ > Mono-list maillist - [email protected] > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list _______________________________________________ Mono-list maillist - [email protected] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list
