Hello,
Thanks Ari,
Ready to help !
Writing a book for Cayenne is very important for the project now... (for
marketing...) But beyond marketing lot of developpers (as me) know just 20%
of what we can do with Cayenne... and it is a bit frustrating..
Another point, is the integration with other frameworks (Tapestry, Wicket,
...). In the book we have to add some parts for this, because in a web
project, ORM is important, but we have to work with all of theses
frameworks, and you know that it is also a challenge !
It is very hard to find a book which talk about how to build a full web
application. But I really think, we can do this because developpers just
need to know 'how to start' and how to correctly integrate these frameworks.
Very often IT managers, developpers choose a framework because they have a
complete example... So if we want to help Cayenne developpers teams we have
to share our experience with these frameworks integration problems...and I
really think it is a key for the success...
So, I think it will be very interesting two have some 'parts' with real
project (kind of real life tutorial):
A VERY simple draft can be:
... PART I : CAYENNE
-
- architecture of the framework..
- ...
-
... PART II : WEB PROJECTS
-
- Wicket
- how to set up a project : Maven, Cayenne, selenium....
- how to wrap Cayenne object with Wicket models ?
- Why Wicket serialization mechanism could be a problem
with Cayenne ...
-
- How to test your web app : Selenium configuration,
- Optimization: Jmeter configuration (Thread group, ...)
....
- Tapestry
.... PART 3
....
Arnaud
2010/5/8 Aristedes Maniatis <amaniati..pache.org>
> On 7/05/10 10:48 PM, Michael Gentry wrote:
>
>> I've just started (about a week ago) to put together a book of sorts
>> (more of a workbook).
>>
>
> While any such contribution would be extremely useful, what can we do at
> Apache to integrate those efforts into the website and official
> documentation?
>
> * Open up the wiki area for broader contributions?
> * Better collaborative tools (Confluence can be a bit awkward in places)?
> * Restructuring of the website?
> * Anything else?
>
> Naturally anything you create can be published elsewhere and linked from
> the official documention, but I'd be keen to see how we can improve the core
> docs at the same time. In particular I think that a 'Everything a Hibernate
> user needs to know about Cayenne.' manual would be great. Any takers from
> our there in userland for someone who has made the switch and could write
> about it?
>
> Despite my previous attempt at comedy, publishing a book would certainly
> aid in credibility. And having published three editions of a book in my life
> before IT, I have a little experience in that area I'd be willing to bring
> toward such a project. But there is a lot of writing to do first. And here
> is another excellent open source project which has just recently released a
> book:
>
>
> http://www.pfsense.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=50&Itemid=78
>
> If you sign up for an annual support contract with the authors, you get a
> free PDF version. I have such a copy and it really is excellent, but it
> would have been a big effort to create.
>
>
> Regards
>
> Ari
>
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