Hi Nathan: thanks for the response.
Thanks for the heads-up on the status of Reactor. I wasn't aware that it
wasn't an actively developed piece of work. Well: as you say and as Doug
demonstrated, there is *some* activity, but from what you say it sounds like
it's kinda stagnating. That's a pity.
I had a look at Transfer and Illudium pu-36, and neither seemed to be quite
implementing things how I figured they ought to be implemented, and I think
in both cases each had some things missing from what I would consider the
essential body of work (for what each is delivering, which obviously is
different: I'm not trying to compare apples to oranges to kiwifruit here).
That said, my opinion was based on the high-level docs, and I've not really
had a crack at either of them, so perhaps I should not be too quick to
judge.
However I have to say that this has made me sceptical as to whether Reactor
is going to be a good fit for us, so I might need to take a closer look at
these other options, and try to come up with some manner of like-for-like
(as much as it can be done) assessment of all three.
I realise I'm coming across as a "take take take" sort of person in regards
to this. I'm a competent (sometimes I like to think "more than competent";
sometimes not ;-) CF developer, and certainly understand what's going on
under the hood of Reactor, so I kind of feel guilty about not putting my
hand up to help with the project. The sad truth is that I am mostly a 9-5
developer (well... less "5" and more "6" or "7"), and kinda want to keep it
that way. I help out on the Adobe forums, pitch my oar into people's blogs
occasionally, and potter around with things after hours sometimes when
there's a need to (like this exploration of Model Glue, ColdSpring and
Reactor I'm currently doing), but I know I would never be dedicated enough
to a cause to really be of any use to an open source project. Just as
well - for my sake - there's people who are a bit more altruistic than me, I
s'pose.
In good news, though: once I did a global search and replace in my sample
code of "objectName" for "objectAlias", and reverted *out* my changes to the
ColdSpring.xml to get the reactor beans to work (that mucking around with
aliases I mentioned earlier): everything is going fine in my sample code
now: in production mode, I am not seeing any re-querying of the DB schema,
and the files are being written to the queries directory correctly. So this
makes me happy.
Cheers for everyone's help.
--
Adam
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