Re: DataView status

From: Malcolm Edgar (malcolm.edga..mail.com)
Date: Tue Oct 10 2006 - 15:51:26 EDT

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    I may be able to contribute to the DV module, but this depends upon
    whether a client project firms up (has to pay the bills). I will keep
    you posted.

    regards Malcolm Edgar

    On 10/11/06, Andrus Adamchik <andru..bjectstyle.org> wrote:
    > On Oct 10, 2006, at 2:54 PM, Adrian Wiesmann wrote:
    > >> * If we (cayenne dev community) are to continue the development, as a
    > >> first step I suggest making Cayenne core independent of DV runtime.
    > >
    > > I would suggest to move DV "out of the way" so that it is not
    > > hurting the
    > > normal Cayenne development. But please keep DataViews supported. I am
    > > currently in the process to switch to Cayenne 3.x because I absolutely
    > > need the Lifecycle Callbacks (generating uuid formated key when
    > > creating a
    > > new object and updating the last_updated field before committing
    > > changes).
    > >
    > > Because the SOBF tool is that much depending on DataViews I would very
    > > much like to see them at least not removed. I would hate to have to
    > > redo
    > > everything I already programmed only because of DataViews being
    > > removed
    > > from Cayenne.
    >
    > This sounds like a reasonable strategy. I guess we can promise that
    > much. But again, I appreciate if all interested parties could
    > actually help us with DV maintenance. You probably know much more
    > about DV than myself or any of the current committers anyways :-)
    >
    > As the history shows (DV, JStaple and Rowan projects), there is lots
    > of interest in Swing-related technologies in our community, but not
    > nearly as much commitment. I suspect it is because Swing is not
    > paying anyone's bills consistently (e.g. I may have a 2-month Swing
    > project and then switch back to webapps, I believe that's the case
    > with others too).
    >
    > It would be cool if we could find one or more dedicated developers
    > with a vision in this area to lead the Swing effort. But I'll keep
    > dreaming...
    >
    > > The SOBF tool (Security Officers Best Friend, Open Source tool for
    > > assessing information security risk)
    >
    > I like your website :-)
    >
    > Andrus
    >
    >
    >
    >



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