I'd definitely be willing to help out if we can get some developers from the Tomcat community excited about the idea. But otherwise it would probably be too much of a stretch (for me, anyways). G
On Jul 1, 2010, at 5:24 PM, Sandro Martini wrote: > Hi to all, and thanks to Chris and Greg for comments ... > > For sure this feature is not my priority (in respect to my work on > Pivot), I have small time to dedicate to Pivot, and this project could > make me delay my other activities on Pivot. > > My/our idea was to make something really useful and not only a Demo > (interesting but it's always a Demo), based on a real-life > requirements, to use also as a test to see in Pivot need some > improvements (following the "Eating your own dog food" rule, not for > other Pivot developers, but surely for me). > Other reasons were that Tomcat is one of most common and known Java > Application Server so any Java Company could see our work, and also > staying all under the Apache Home maybe we could get some other help > in this project. > I agree with Greg, the best here would be to have some Tomcat > developer to help us, in direct way or maybe also on suggestion / > enhancements if required and something has started in this direction. > > Then, the other, classic ideas on Pivot: the GUI Builder, etc ... > I have another idea: a GUI Prototyping Utility (like many other > products), but also this is not a strategical one I suppose. > > > In any case, I/we haven't time limit on this (the subject could be > Tomcat 7, because some features like persistence of JMX settings will > be implemented in that release), so I could start to analyze the > problem and start to write some document (and maybe some code > skeleton), on out skunk (experimental) area under Subversion, and > let's see what happens (or if someone join us in this effort), ok ? > > > As always, comments and suggestions are welcome ... > > Bye, > Sandro
