Hey all,
I just had a really nice couple hour in person mini-Turbine meeting at my
house with the guys from LucasFilms (Freeman and Paul). They are big users
of Apache JServ and have been exploring using Turbine for a while now. They
were also at the Turbine Summit.
We discussed how Turbine works in detail...going over the WebMacro
integration and some finer points of things. We discussed some features they
would like to implement or see implemented. We went over a bit of how Scarab
is being done.
Features they would like to see implemented:
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$link (WebMacroLink) should be expanded to be glossary based. Something like
$link.find("mylink") would return a pre-built URI that is looked up in some
sort of table on the back end.
For example:
$link.find("mylink") would resolve to something like this:
http://www.foo.com/scarab/servlet/Turbine/template/MyPage
I think that would be a neat addition.
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On top of that, they would also like to be able to do something that also is
like a finite state machine that relates a link to an action. That way, the
hard coding of the action for a screen could be abstracted out to another
lookup.
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They would like to see the ActionEvent stuff be able to properly preserve
case on the Method names. I think that this can be achieved by caching the
name value within the ParameterParser instead of lowercasing it when it
comes in.
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Anyway, it was really nice to see some more eyes light up when I talk about
this stuff. They totally "get it" and I think that is really cool. They
understand that my motivations for Turbine is to improve the experience for
fellow developers vs. make a product to shove down people's throats. Turbine
is made by web developers for web developers to make web developers lives
easier (wow, can I say web developer one more time? <smile>).
I find that fact exceptionally cool and different than the typical model of
buying a commercial piece of software that was written by one kind of
developer and targeted at another kind of developer. Or even like JSP which
was developed by someone who has never done a web application.
Maybe we will see Turbine used to serve up starwars.com someday.
-jon
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