Have you seen hivemind? http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/sandbox/hivemind/ -- dIon Gillard, Multitask Consulting Blog: http://blogs.codehaus.org/people/dion/
David Le Strat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 16/10/2003 01:21:17 AM: > FYI, I found an interesting article comparing the > Spring/Avalon and PicoContainer framework. > > http://www.springframework.org/docs/lightweight_container.html > > Interesting quote from the article: > > "Avalon's most important container implementation, > Phoenix, targets standalone applications like full > servers. Avalon has its advantages there, as it has > been designed for start/stop cycles etc. The only > stable implementation for embedded use like within a > web application is Fortress, which competes with > Spring's bean container. Spring focuses on embedded > usage as application context, it does not aim to be a > foundation for server processes. And of course, > Spring's feature set for application development goes > far beyond the bean container itself." > > I guess the choice boils down to what we are trying to > achieve: > - What is the primary purpose of the service > framework? Provide server services? Provide web > application services? Should Jetspeed provide/use a > framework for developing reusable portlets components > (as opposed to core portal services)? > - What core functionality should the service framework > provide? AOP, JTA, etc... > > Just my two cents. In any case, I like David ST > approach to create a commons like layer avoiding to > get too tightly coupled with the chosen service > framework. > > Best regards, > > David. > > --- "Weaver, Scott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have been evaluating component/service/kernel > > frameworks. So far, I really like what I see in > > Avalon Phoenix, it seems right down the alley of > > what we are trying to accomplish. It also has > > built-in in JMX to manage components. > > > > I briefly looked at picocontainer, very cool, > > however it is somewhat young where as Phoenix has > > quite a few projects built upon it, including Apache > > James. Same goes for Hivemind with respect to being > > a less mature project. > > > > I would love if everyone who has used/researched any > > of these products give me a summary of their > > findings/experiences so as we can make the best > > choice for Jetspeed. > > > > I realize we had a recently discussed this in passed > > thread, but I want to keep this alive as we need to > > make this decision very soon. Plus, I want to have > > as much community involvement/input on this choice > > as possible. > > > > Regards, > > ________________________________ > > | | > > | Scott T Weaver | > > | <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | > > | Apache Jetspeed Portal Project | > > | Apache Pluto Portlet Container | > > |________________________________| > > > > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search > http://shopping.yahoo.com > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
