Excellent work, people! :-)
> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Rickard Öberg > Sent: 27 April 2008 20:38 > To: Qi4j Dev > Subject: [qi4j-dev] Status update > > > Hey, > > I've been down at the Malmö office all week, working on Qi4j-stuff, and > wanted to give y'all an update on what's happening. We're not lazy :-) > > First of all, on Wednesday I went to Silkeborg in Denmark and did a > presentation for the Danish JUG, JavaGruppen. It was hosted at Jyske > Bank, and approximately 30 people in the audience, mostly bank and > telecom folks. After the first intro presentation I did one with twenty > slides on "things that people seem to like about Qi4j". Random stuff > that people have told me "forget about the rest, THIS is what's really > cool", and they're all different funnily eogh. This particular audience > really liked the fact that Swing programming is radically simplified due > to Property bindings and the Remote EntityStore support. Always fun to > see what different developers react on. The presentation was done in a > TV-studio at Jyske Bank, and was recorded by two separate cameras. > Hopefully some of it will end up on the net so you can watch it yourself. > > Development-wise, I met with Emil and Tobias and worked out the > Neo-integration. It's going to so kick ass it's unbelievable! If you > want to harness the raw power of the Neo database then Qi4j is going to > be the easiest and most performant way to do it, it seems. We have one > mode of use where the Qi4j-wrapper is a really thin layer on top of Neo. > It'll be cool to do performance tests on that and see how well it works > in real apps. > > We also had a meeting with Nino Martinez and Jan Kronquist at Jayway to > discuss our web strategy. We want to be able to automatically make CRUD > apps really easy to do, but without the code generation that Some Other > Frameworks are doing, in order to make it easy to do changes to the > domain which is always a top priority. The first round will be based on > Wicket so that we can easily get something going. > > After that Jan did a quick spike (one hour) on writing an EntityStore > that was backed with GigaSpaces. It worked, and the code was > super-simple! Hopefully we can commit that shortly. It was really cool > to do the tests that created some entities with properties, and then > load up the GigaSpaces console and see that the data was actually > available in the space. Really neat! > > So that's that. A very productive week! > > My next priority is to get PetStore going, to validate that our API's > are actually useful, and try out some design and architecture patterns. > Another thing I want to prioritize is to make the RMI EntityStore > optimized, because if that works well then writing Swing clients becomes > a very attractive alternative. > > If anyone has opinions on what we should be focusing on now for the 0.2 > release, and onwards, speak up. We want your input! > > /Rickard > > _______________________________________________ > qi4j-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ops4j.org/mailman/listinfo/qi4j-dev > _______________________________________________ qi4j-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ops4j.org/mailman/listinfo/qi4j-dev
