A similar question has been asked once since I joined this list - so I
apologize in advance if this question has been asked numerous times
before.
A colleague of mine and I are researching Shale for potential use in a
production environment. Our timeline is pretty open - we're looking to
implement some set of frameworks within the next year or so. Shale
piqued our interest as it integrated and supported many of the
frameworks we are looking to introduce (Spring, Spring WebFlow, JSF,
JUnit tests, validation, etc).
I actually have a few questions:
1) Is Shale development still at full tilt, or has it weaned in leiu of
Java conferences coming to an end or not as much developer time
available?
2) I've been actively following the development of Shale for the past
few months and haven't found many news updates recently (hopefully that
means the developers are busy developing and have no time to post
updates). Are there any other more frequently updated resources that I
may not be aware of? I currently check the Shale Wiki, David Geary's
Blog, Craig's Blog, struts.apache.org and general googling.
3) When's the next big regurgitation of code into the trunk ? :)
What I have read and seen (just yesterday we built and brought up the
use-cases under Resin 3.0.12) I have been very excited about. Although I
noticed a bug right off the bat (probably the state bug related to the
ViewController as outlined in the wiki), I'm still very interested in
using this framework for our product.
I think the Shale framework is very promising and I applaud the speed in
which it has gone from conceptual to tangible. My only fear is that
we'll need to move to a new set of frameworks before Shale becomes
dependable for production use :).
Thanks!
Regards,
Kaleb Walton
