Hey guys,

As a Hurricane refugee (sounds weird saying that) I have no dependable internet 
connectivity so I appologize for getting to these emails so late.  And thank 
you Noel for letting people know.

Now for Geronimo integration Alan and I had discussed making some components 
into GBeans.  We were debating whether or not to make the entire server into 
one GBean or to make all services in the server into a GBean.  To show how that 
is done Alan whiped together a few wrappers for all the services here:

http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/incubator/directory/eve/trunk/frontend/geronimo/?root=Apache-SVN

But after he did this we began thinking the single GBean approach for all of 
Eve may be better.  So with Alan's examples I think one of us can pick up the 
torch and write a single wrapper pretty easily for plugging into Geronimo.

There are however some considerations.  We have begun to decouple the backend 
code from Avalon and will have pure pojos with Avalon wrappers.  This must 
happen before the backend can be integrated as well as the frontend code.  

Also we have begun to separate out frontend plumbing from LDAP specific code in 
Eve's frontend.  This code is a TCP specific SEDA framework.  We're going to 
make this into a subproject on its own so we can reuse it for a Eve integrated 
Kerberos server without tight coupling (it can also be standalone).  Trustin 
Lee (guy who did Netty) will be looking into adding UDP support to this in 
project.  

So what does this all mean for integration?  Well we want to write wrappers for 
this SEDA framework where Eve just plugs in as another simple protocol to be 
able to benefit from those wrappers.  By writing a geronimo wrapper for SEDA 
rather than an Eve specific frontend we now allow any protocol to be fired up 
within geronimo without having to specifically integrate that protocols 
frontend.  WDYT?  

So we really want to write a SEDA framework wrapper intead of one specifically 
for Eve.  This also makes me think if its worth writting wrappers for the 
backend of Eve and this raises several questions I still don't have answers to 
but these I'll leave for other emails.

Hope that helps,
Alex


> From: "Noel J. Bergman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: 2004/09/10 Fri AM 12:26:39 EDT
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> CC: "Apache Directory Developers List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: RE: Eve integration with Geronimo
> 
> Alan D. Cabrera wrote:
> > Alex Karasulu is working on it.  I suspect that it will be
> > completed soon.  Alex?
> 
> Small matter of something called a hurricane has Alex off-line at the
> moment.
> 
>       --- Noel
> 
> 

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