Lurker alert ;) On Wed, 23 May 2007 08:34:33 -0400, Herrick, Mike wrote:
> I think that I am the minority here in that I represent potential growth > of the Jini/JavaSpaces community. I am just trying to give you my No, not at all. I've been lurking from day one and share exactly the same concerns. > Outside of getting something called River released and getting the > standard processes going, I'm interested in seeing a simplification of > Jini/JavaSpaces. 1. Someone else mentioned this, but forget the installer, > just unzip / untar (take a look at Tangosol or GridGain - it is dirt > simple) Yes on Maven, Ivy, etc. 2. Configuration - simplify it into a > property file or at least provide that as the default (again > Tangolos/GridGain are different, but they are simple to set up) > 3. Logging - get rid of sys.out, use log4j (I vaguely remember that > somewhere) Amen to all of that! (-log4j directly, +slf4j for clogging compatibility) (svn co, mvn install) or unzip, run. Anything else is "not good enough". Make it easy to develop (in an IDE), easy to build and easy to test! Holger
