Hi there, regarding possible post-html/Ajax clients, http://www.wix.com/ demonstrates what sites could look like when you build your domain model in qi4j and would press the "build-me-this-shiny-Manga-style-flash-site-out-of-this" button :)
/peter On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 1:57 PM, Peter Neubauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Gang, > great to see all the progress that is happening once the API seems to > have stabilized! > > One area I am interested in is the possibility to add e.g. automated > clients like the Web CRUD thing for mobile devices, like iPhone, > Android and J2ME. For that, probably the best way to go is a well know > serialization protocol between the server and the client. I guess that > is already in place regarding the Swing integration? Is there any more > work that can be done to e.g. make that changeable, or describe that > network protocol in generic terms so one can build "qi4j cleints" that > can use all the asynchronous server goodies and stil be native to the > client app context (SWT, .NET, J2ME, Android etc)? > > Possibly some of these platforms could be directly supported with > "deep" reflective generic integration like Web and Swing? > > /peter > > > > On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 1:37 PM, Rickard Öberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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 > > > > > > -- > GTalk: neubauer.peter > Skype peter.neubauer > ICQ 18762544 > GTalk neubauer.peter > Phone +46704 106975 > LinkedIn http://www.linkedin.com/in/neubauer > > http://www.neo4j.org - New Energy for Data - the Graph Database. > http://www.ops4j.org - New Energy for OSS Communities - Open > Participation Software. > http://www.qi4j.org - New Energy for Java - Domain Driven Development. > -- GTalk: neubauer.peter Skype peter.neubauer ICQ 18762544 GTalk neubauer.peter Phone +46704 106975 LinkedIn http://www.linkedin.com/in/neubauer http://www.neo4j.org - New Energy for Data - the Graph Database. http://www.ops4j.org - New Energy for OSS Communities - Open Participation Software. http://www.qi4j.org - New Energy for Java - Domain Driven Development. _______________________________________________ qi4j-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ops4j.org/mailman/listinfo/qi4j-dev
