Hello Dan, The idea of an android viewer sounds wonderful. I think it will be wonderful if we can have a ORM like ( DAO pattern based ) web service client library on android. This will help app developers to prototype rapidly without spending too much time on server side development.
Thanks, D On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 12:12 PM, Dan Haywood <d...@haywood-associates.co.uk>wrote: > Hi Upeksha, > Thanks for your interest in possibly working on this ticket as your GSOC > project. > > On ISIS-371 you said: > > *I am Dimuthu Upeksha a Computer Engineering Undergraduate. This year I > hope to participate GSoC 2013 and found Isis project interesting at the > very beginning I watch the video[1] about isis. I'm good at java web > development using frameworks like Spring,hibernate,Struts 2 and > persistence, and Php development using Codeignitor and Kohana frameworks. > As well I'm an android app developer. But I'm quite new to Isis and related > technologies like RESTful API so if you can provide me information about > how to start with Isis and other technologies, it will be a great help for > me to move on. * > > It would be a good idea for you to use Isis to build a simple(ish) domain > application, using Maven quickstart to get going, choosing a domain that > might make sense to use from an Android phone or tablet. That'll give you > a good idea of what Isis is all about. > > I then suggest you play around with the Restful Objects API from chrome > using plugins such as json-view and RESTconsole. It would also be a good > idea to download the Restful Objects spec from [2] and start reading it :-) > > If you do your work on github, then I can easily review your code and help > you out if you get stuck. And if you end up doing this project, it'll also > be a starting point for your development of an Android viewer. > > With respect to what it takes to build a viewer, it's easiest to break out > into separate stories, and tackle them incrementally. On my blog [3] you > can see a list of stories that I recently prepared. > > ~~~ > Could I also ask that you subscribe to the dev@isis.apache.org mailing > list > (if you haven't already)? If this project is to be accepted, we require > that any development is done "the Apache way", which means that it is open > and through our mailing list. > > In the meantime, I'll also see who in the dev community might want to > mentor you. It might well be me, but I don't want to spread myself too > thinly, and there should, in any case, be a back-up mentor. > > Thx > Dan > Apache Isis PMC Chair > > [2] http://restfulobjects.org > [3] http://danhaywood.com/resources/viewer-stories/ > -- Regards, *Deepak Gopalakrishnan* *Mobile*:+918891509774 *Skype* : deepakgk87 http://myexps.blogspot.com
