On 11/5/06, Coach Wei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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There is an obvious need and interest for XAP as I have heard such from a lot of conversations and customer needs. Declarative Ajax is validated by various proprietary software offerings (such as Microsoft Altas);
perhaps that would make an interesting article for oreilly or theserverside (XAP as an open source java analogue for atlas)
However, XAP lacks some elements required to engage a community: 1. How many people have heard of XAP? Not that many. There are some and I personally know quite a few are fairly interested in digging into it - however... 2. XAP has no engaging demo or samples, nor text description, to get someone to be further his interest; 3. Getting the XAP code and start to write an app? Or even digging into the code? Hard, very hard, even for me; The above are my observations. To a large degree, they are natural for a project at this stage - which is why I said we should not be overly concerned about the situation at the moment.
but it's probably a good time to start working towards raising XAP's profile
Going forward, I think Bob Buffone made some really good suggestions that would certainly help. In particular, I think XAP needs: 1. Some good demo or sample applications that pick an visitor's interest; 2. Some straightforward documentation to help them get started with building sample code or apps; These are things that some committers are trying to work on over the next few months. Lastly, I want to caution other Apache folks though - there is not overnight success. It will take a lot of work and probably many more months for us to see a growing community.
+1 community building is more art than science momentum is somewhat unponderable and unfathomable - robert
