On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 11:51:03AM -0500, Jason van Zyl wrote: > On Mon, 2003-01-27 at 11:37, Gonzalo Diethelm wrote: > > I think Fortress is the right choice at this point, given the > > (proposed) roadmap for Avalon: > > > > ECM -> Fortress -> Merlin -> SuperContainer > > I don't believe so. I have been working on Plexus with Turbine in mind > for quite some time. Plexus has more tests, a Maven plugin to assist in > component development, runtime deployment and testing. Plexus also has > services in place for a clean, component oriented version of Turbine as > an application development tool.
My initial reaction is that I'd like to see Turbine stay away from Plexus. Even if it a technically superior implementation of the Avalon Framework, I think we should stick with the Avalon community on this one as they seem to be moving towards the previously mentioned SuperContainer for all of the right reasons (e.g. keeping a solid user base and cutting down on fragmentation). To me, it's comparable to the Torque/OJB situation. Why should Torque keep maintaining all of its persistence code when OJB is already devoted to it? Why should the Turbine/Fulcrum community devote to maintaining our own (assuming Jason donates it) container when Avalon is already devoted to it? Though if Jason could give a few of examples of why Plexus is undoubtedly the right container for the Turbine/Fulcrum community over Avalon's Fortress/Merlin/SuperContainer roadmap, I could concede that perhaps it's the right way to go (e.g. I vaguely remember Jason mentioning something about dynamic loading...not quite sure). I've been really hyped about the Plexus container for a long time now, but after lurking on avalon-dev for awhile, I've come to agree with their SuperContainer approach and would rather see the work that is being done on Plexus be funneled into Avalon's Fortress/Merlin/SuperContainer effort. Though maybe Plexus is the right way to go for now until the SuperContainer is released... Jason, can you see Plexus (or the features that you/Zenplex require of Plexus) being implemented in Avalon's Fortress/Merlin/SuperContainer efforts in either the short or long term? Thanks, Stephen -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
