On Aug 3, 2011, at 6:36 PM, Pete Muir wrote:
> I have drafted this out at > https://docs.jboss.org/author/display/ISPN/Getting+Started+Guide. I'm having a read through it. I'm fixing some stuff and maybe adding links to other parts, such as archetypes. More comments below... > > We start with a couple of introductory chapters - a brief overview of what > Infinispan offers, instructions for how to download and install infinispan, > and instructions on the GUIDemo (as it helps people visualise whats going > on). We then move on to the bulk of the guide, in which I want to address the > most common reasons people want to try out Infinispan: > > * Infinispan as a standalone (local) cache. This also serves as the simplest > way to get started with Infinispan, hence it's position at the top of the > list! > * Infinispan as a data-grid, running from plain Java SE, in either replicated > or distributed mode > * Infinispan as the 2nd level cache for Hibernate > * Accessing Infinispan remotely > * Using Hot Rod > * Using REST > * Using memcached > * Using Infinispan inside a JBoss AS 7 cluster > * Using Infinispan inside another server (e.g. Tomcat, GlassFish) > > and finally a common topic > > * Monitoring Infinispan > > In my experience this represents 95% of the reasons people want to look at > Infinispan, so we should hopefully get most people up and running with their > use case quickly with these tutorials. > > I've built up the tutorials for the first two cases (distributed mode is > missing) from the old tutorials to give you an idea of the style, level and > content that the other tutorials would contain. Each tutorial would be > acompanied by a quickstart (example, sample) that contains the code discussed > in the tutorial and is runnable. You can find snapshots of the quickstarts > zip at > https://hudson.qa.jboss.com/hudson/view/Infinispan/job/Infinispan-Quickstart/ > - this will appear on ci.jboss.org at some point under the job name > "Infinispan-Quickstart" but the publishing queue appears to be temporarily > broken ;-) > > Any comments, thoughts etc.? Are we missing a common use case? Is the > explanation too practical and doesn't explain concepts properly? > > Once we get this contents flushed out, I would like to get a few volunteers > to help with writing up the guides and quickstarts - someone for each topic. > I'll help out with editing etc. of course :-) > > A few notes: > > * I've moved the Scala and Groovy stuff out (to the user guide) as I just > don't believe this is really of great interest to the majority of people > thinking of using Infinispan > * I haven't migrated the monitoring Infinispan content from SBS, as I think > Galder was working on this? Again, this content is in another space that is not Infinispan :( - why do people keep moving wikis from one space to another? can't you link? Anyway, glad to move this content over. I like the idea of quickstarts but a monitoring one requires downloading RHQ, so that'd be a decent size bundle. What's the timeline for having all this finished? > * I haven't linked in the GUIDemo stuff as I want to discuss where this > should live with everyone > _______________________________________________ > infinispan-dev mailing list > infinispan-dev@lists.jboss.org > https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/infinispan-dev -- Galder Zamarreño Sr. Software Engineer Infinispan, JBoss Cache _______________________________________________ infinispan-dev mailing list infinispan-dev@lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/infinispan-dev
