Hi, Here is a message I just sent out to the members of the
[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list. It is of interest to this list, so I am cross-posting it here. Stephen >Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 10:17:49 -0500 >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >From: Stephen Adkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Perl Widget Library => P5EE > >Hi, > >There's been no traffic on this list for a while. >This email is to update you on what has been going on. > >I am using the PWL in production at one of my customers. >This causes me to periodically update the CVS repository with >the latest code. > >However, my attention has switched to the P5EE (Perl 5 Enterprise >Environment) project at > > http://www.officevision.com/pub/p5ee/ > >Everything in the Perl Widget Library that was good has found >its way into P5EE, so the PWL has no independent future. >Anyone of you subscribed to this list who still are interested >in Perl widgets as they were being developed here should subscribe >to the P5EE mailing list and follow unfolding developments there. > >Here is a brief history of how this came to be. > > * I have long sought a way to create complex HTML UI's out of > reusable components (widgets) > * Discussion began on the mod_perl list concerning a widget > library, to which I responded by starting this Sourceforge > project. > * I think what was envisioned by most participants was a very > lightweight library. > * I, however, envisioned tight integration with Controller > and Repository (persistence) components to facilitate > active controls (with encapsulated event handling and bubbling > to container widgets) and data-aware controls. > * As I developed the concept, I realized that the Controller > component really deserved to be central to a more far-reaching > framework than just a widget library. Furthermore, many other > facilities (Config, debugging, etc.) were being duplicated > between my separately developed Perl Widget Library and > Perl Data Repository distributions. > * Discussion began on the mod_perl list concerning a > "J2EE for Perl" framework (later dubbed "P5EE"). I recognized > this as a project that I wanted to be involved with, and I > responded by beginning work on the definition of P5EE. > http://www.officevision.com/pub/p5ee/ > * It became apparent over time that many of the services I was > working on for the Perl Widget Library were really appropriate > for the P5EE, and the Widget library itself was but a small > piece of the P5EE. So I migrated all of the PWL code over > to the P5EE project, and further development continues there. > >So the Perl Widget Library is a dead end project, but all of the >promise that it held is alive and well in the P5EE project. >Feel free to unsubscribe from the perl-widget-developer mailing list. >From now on, all of the Perl Widget activity will be in the >P5EE project. > >Stephen > >
