In case anyone here had any opinions, I was pondering setting up a tiny little hivemind library project on sourceforge to provide common functionality for things that lots of users seem to be requiring time and time again. Like hibernate accesss/security/file view services/etc...
I think Hivetranse looks good, but I remember getting pissed off reading the faq entry regarding putting the source in cvs as something that "should not be counted on anytime soon", and so rolled my own solution for most of these things. It almost doesn't seem worth the effort, does anyone have an opinion on this? I don't want to get stuck adding all kinds of features and crap to it right away which is what makes it sad, but it would be so easy to stick it out there and tell people to submit patches if they want more.... Or.....perhaps some of the external services in projects like hivetranse should be more clearly referenced directly in the tapestry docs? Maybe the users guide could have a page for "external libraries" that briefly describes some of the common problems people need to solve and how and which library provides a solution, with the caveat that it is not maintained by any tapestry developers so use at your own risk ;) .... thoughts jesse
