Welcome aboard Robert! I hope to look at the Cayenne+Tapestry stuff
more in the near future and can hopefully contribute a bit.
On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 2:31 PM, Robert Zeigler <robert.zeigle..mail.com> wrote:
> Thanks for the vote of confidence.
> I've enjoyed using cayenne for the last 4-5 years. I came to cayenne
> looking for alternatives to hibernate. Although hibernate was powerful, it
> also seemed grossly complicated and opaque. I've thoroughly enjoyed
> cayenne's focus on the /developer/ experience, ease of use, and transparency
> of the framework. As a committer, some of my interests are:
>
> 1) To improve the usability and learnability of the framework
> Recent experiences in teaching new users the ins and outs of the
> framework have highlighted a few fringe cases that can be frustrating,
> including:
> a) Differences in handling between relationships vs.
> properties, particularly in the context of transient vs. non-transient
> objects
> b) Difficulties in providing a satisfactory solution to the
> problem of dirty state being potentially perpetuated and preventing clean
> commits
> * This relates to a, particularly in relation to
> web-development
> * More details later
>
> 2) To expand the feature-set to be more competitive with other ORM tools out
> there, while maintaining the simplicity and transparency that is cayenne.
>
> 3) To continue integration efforts
> * As Kevin mentioned, I've worked considerably on integrating
> Tapestry 5 and Cayenne; I would like to improve that integration, whether
> the project eventually winds up as a subject project of cayenne, tapestry,
> or neither.
>
> My thanks, as well, to the cayenne community who has always been
> considerate, helpful, and intelligent.
>
> Robert
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