Re: wrap up from the software summit

From: Bill Dudney (bdudne..ac.com)
Date: Mon Oct 30 2006 - 10:52:29 EST

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    Hey Andrus,

    Sorry for being lazy... I should have known this, I thought our site
    was still being pulled from the objectspace site, but I didn't look
    into it.

    Thanks,
    -bd-

    On Oct 30, 2006, at 7:24 AM, Andrus Adamchik wrote:

    > Hi Bill,
    >
    > Here is the routine:
    >
    > 1. check out the site sources from here:
    >
    > https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/cayenne/site/
    >
    > 2. Update the contents in xdocs/xml/index.xml
    >
    > 3. Build with ant (just type "ant")
    >
    > 4. Check that "target/index.html" looks the way you like it.
    >
    > 5. Follow the instructions printed by Ant, namely:
    >
    > [echo] ==== To update the site, commit the changes and then do
    > this:
    > [echo] # ssh people.apache.org
    > [echo] # cd /www/incubator.apache.org/cayenne/ && svn up
    > [echo]
    >
    >
    > Andrus
    >
    >
    > On Oct 28, 2006, at 4:42 PM, Bill Dudney wrote:
    >
    >> Andrus,
    >>
    >> I added a news item but I don't know how to update the home page.
    >>
    >> Info appreciated.
    >>
    >> Thanks,
    >>
    >> -bd-
    >>
    >> On Oct 28, 2006, at 9:46 AM, Bill Dudney wrote:
    >>
    >>> Hi All,
    >>>
    >>> Just wanted to let you all know about last week..the software
    >>> summit (www.softwaresummit.com).
    >>>
    >>> I presented;
    >>>
    >>> http://bill.dudney.net/roller/resources/bill/Cayenne.pdf
    >>>
    >>> at the conference.
    >>>
    >>> There were about 600 people there and about 60 or 70 made it to
    >>> one of the talks I did on Cayenne. Generally everyone liked the
    >>> idea of Cayenne, there was a broad range of experience with R/O
    >>> mapping, some had done hibernate but many were doing straight
    >>> JDBC or iBatis. The JDBC'ers were very impressed with Cayenne,
    >>> and the hibernater's were pumped about the modeler :-)
    >>>
    >>> Over all Cayenne was well received and I hope to see at least a
    >>> little of an uptick in the user list and maybe a new developer or
    >>> two.
    >>>
    >>> A couple of specific observations;
    >>>
    >>> 1) JPA support was high on many folks list of stuff that they
    >>> wanted to see.
    >>> 2) One of the guys at the show backed up cayenne modeler to his
    >>> 500+ table oracle db and the modeler pulled in all the metadata
    >>> flawlessly. He was quite impressed!
    >>> 3) A lot of people still don't get the R/O thing. I was surprised
    >>> at the # of folks using iBatis to manage complex object graphs
    >>> and essentially re-implementing the relationship handling code on
    >>> top of iBatis.
    >>>
    >>> If you have any notes or comments on the preso please feel free
    >>> to send them to me. I'll be updating the preso and giving it
    >>> again I'm sure. On that note it is licensed under creative
    >>> commons so feel free to use it at your local JUG or whatever to
    >>> spread the word about Cayenne.
    >>>
    >>> TTFN,
    >>>
    >>> -bd-
    >>
    >>
    >



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