I think that this is a very interesting project and looked at it several times. Unfortunately, I don't have the cycles to take on Mentoring at this time, just showing general support for you to move on, i.e. get a Champion and together pen the formal proposal, which most people here would use to gauge the feasibility. Risk of not being accepted after putting in a lot of work is there, but knowing this project I think a well formulated proposal will make it a no-brainer....
Cheers On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 5:56 PM, Dan Haywood <dkhayw...@gmail.com> wrote: > We're considering proposing a group of related open source projects to the > Apache Incubator. At an unconference a few weekends ago I met and sounded > out Bertrand Delacrataz and Lars Eilebrecht, who suggested a brief posting > here would be a good first step. > > So: the Apache Isis (?) project will provide the ability to rapidly develop > domain-driven applications. Built on the Naked Objects framework > (http://nakedobjects.org) and a number of related sister projects > (http://starobjects.org), it allows full stack apps to be built just by > writing pojo domain objects. Technically, it's somewhat akin to an ORM, but > rather than just automatically persisting your objects, it automatically > provides all the other necessary layers. This means that the development > goes very very quickly, focusing on the bit that really matters; the > business application. > > One particularly important aspect is the ability to customise the generated > UIs. The framework supports pluggable viewers running either as webapps and > RIA, and uses existing libraries such as Apache Wicket to support > customisation. The framework as a whole is customisable and provides a > plugin architecture to allow the other components to be pluggable. > > For some time Naked Objects, the framework, has elicited interest from > "early adopters", but our community remains small. We're hoping that Apache > will provide a platform by which we can grow our community into the "early > majority". We can demonstrate the commitment to do this (two books have > been written on Naked Objects). Until recently there were just two main > committers, both freelancer developers based in the UK. Since then we have > picked up three new committers (in Sweden, USA and South Africa), two > directly attributable to the publication of the second of these books in Dec > 2009. > > From our understanding of the Apache process, our proposal will need some > mentors and a sponsor. Vincent Massol (Maven) has already offered, as has > James Carman (Wicket). We're hoping that this post might interest a few > more, in which case we'll post a formal project proposal. > > Thanks for reading this, looking forward to your replies. > > Dan Haywood > Robert Matthews > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > -- Niclas Hedhman, Software Developer http://www.qi4j.org - New Energy for Java I live here; http://tinyurl.com/2qq9er I work here; http://tinyurl.com/2ymelc I relax here; http://tinyurl.com/2cgsug --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org