Colin / all,
I've had a lot of questions about OpenSymphony over the past 24 hours, so
this should answer some of your questions.
I'm sure there are tonnes of areas you can help! We have about 4 main
components on the boil at the moment:
- SiteMesh - This is a servlet filter + JSP tags module that uses decorators
to allow for excellent site layout and web app integration (ie you can
integrate legacy web apps that are perl or CF based with your current J2EE
apps - very cool) [requires Servlet 2.3 / JSP 1.2]
- OSCache - A JSP tag library and set of classes to perform fine grained
dynamic caching of JSP content. It also has persistent on disk caches, and
can allow your site to have graceful error tolerance (eg if an error occurs
like your db goes down, you can serve the cached content so people can still
surf the site almost without knowing). [requires Servlet 2.3 / JSP 1.2]
- OpenSymphony User - A set of user management EJB components that will work
on any EJB server. At the moment every server has its own user management
API. This project is an attempt to unite them to make your applications
_truly_ portable between app servers. [requires EJB 1.1 / some OS Base
components]
- OpenSymphony CMS - The broader goal is to create an enterprise class Open
Source content management system. This is perhaps the largest module of them
all, but the other modules can all be integrated into it. Being J2EE
modules, each one works well by itself, or may be dependent on other
modules. [requires EJB 1.1 / some OS Base components]
As you can see the first two should work on most up to date servlet
containers, so it's not just J2EE stuff here!
Hope that gives you a good overview of the project, but where can people
help?
We always appreciate a hand! There's lots of design, coding, analysis,
documentation, web site building etc to do as with any large Open Source
project.
The best things you can do to get started:
- Sign up for the newsletter (some discussion goes on here) at
http://opensymphony.sourceforge.net (beware, this site is grossly out of
date compared with the Groove space below)
- Get Groove (http://www.groove.net) and join the OpenSymphony Development
Space.
(that is if you use Windows)
- Recruit and tell all your J2EE friends about OpenSymphony ;)
After you've downloaded and installed Groove (it's a really really cool new
groupware application, all the developers communicate there) open the
attached file and you'll be hooked up with the rest of us and we can chat /
discuss there.
Email me ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) or the list with any questions or areas you
think you can help out!
-mike
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Colin Jacobs [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Saturday, November 18, 2000 5:37 AM
> To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> Subject: OpenSymphony was RE: User management
>
>
> Hi there.
>
> I like the looks of opensymphony. I've been looking for an open source
> project to help out on. Is the bug list on sourceforge up to date? Maybe
> once I familiarize myself with the code there, taking a look at some bugs
> would be a good place to start. Unless you'd prefer I helped with
> testing or
> in some other arena. I'm a J2EE software-engineer-type-person, so
> hopefully
> I could be useful somewhere.
>
> Regards,
>
> Colin
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Cannon-Brookes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2000 4:14 PM
> To: Orion-Interest
> Subject: RE: User management
>
>
> Hani,
>
> I'm actually part of a large J2EE project called OpenSymphony. One of the
> components we are building is app server independent user and group
> management beans, with plugins for the most popular servers
> (Orion, WL, WS,
> JRun etc).
>
> Email me: [EMAIL PROTECTED] if you (or anyone) want to help
> out in anyway
> (testing, coding, design, docs etc).
>
> I'll be sure to let the list know when our first components are released
> (should be very soon now).
>
> -mike
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Hani Suleiman
> > Sent: Friday, November 17, 2000 10:25 AM
> > To: Orion-Interest
> > Subject: User management
> >
> >
> > Are there any user management beans out there that are even slightly
> > app-server agnostic? Most app servers come with their own
> tightly coupled
> > user management API's, and the set of EJB's I'm writing need to
> work with
> > minimum fuss across various app servers (Orion and Weblogic to start
> > with). I don't mind having to write the odd specialised class
> to hook into
> > a specific implementation, but before diving in and writing the whole
> > abstraction layer, I thought I'd ask to see if someone already knows of
> > such a beast.
> >
> > Hani
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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