Ok, forget what I wrote : it was only my 2 cents...

Antoine Sabot-Durand

Le 6 avr. 2011 à 23:52, Shane Bryzak <[email protected]> a écrit :

> On 06/04/11 19:22, Antoine Sabot-Durand wrote:
>> Hi Shane,
>>
>> Your vision is pretty cool, but I'm not sure to understand your means to 
>> achieve it.
>> Do you want to develop the platform from scratch on GAE or use an existing 
>> collaborative plateform ?
>>
>> I love the idea of using Seam and java EE to create such a platform (I could 
>> see a lot of project were I could reuse it ;-) ) for this university but 
>> don't you think it's a very big project and that it's very similar with the 
>> Seam Wiki example / project that host seamframework.org and in.relation.to 
>> today ?
>
> It will have some similarities to functionality provided by 
> seamframework.org, but much more accessible.  It's honestly not going to be 
> that complex (the key is to keep things simple) and I don't think it will be 
> a significant development effort.  Most of the time will be spent on 
> usability analysis I imagine.
>
>> IMHO to be realistic and result focus we should start on an existing 
>> platform. Either with a web standard platform that will not be in Java 
>> (wordpress, drupal, etc...)  or better with a solution based on Java like 
>> jives or even better exo-platform (built on top of gatein portal). An other 
>> solution would be to port Seam Wiki from Seam 2 to Seam 3 and make it 
>> evolves t meet our needs...
>
> Unfortunately none of these solutions offer the functionality that I want the 
> site to provide.  The Seam 2 wiki example is too over-engineered for the 
> simpler requirements of the new site (not to mention is based on JSF, which I 
> don't want to use).
>
>> Concerning the cloud platform, I'm not very found of GAE, because it's very 
>> restrictive and a proprietary version of Java EE (datastore, thread 
>> management, bad JSF support, no EJB support...) and is not in the spirit of 
>> Java EE. Amazon's Elasticbeanstalk or some of your Redhat / JBoss cloud 
>> solution looks better to me. In the case we would like to promote the dev 
>> part a solution like cloudbees could also a good solution to me. It would be 
>> nice to have a part of the site build around Seam Forge and that could allow 
>> user to test, share code (a kind of Github with possibility to run code). A 
>> kind of Seam Genius Bar ;-).
>
> Using GAE was just an idea, I'm not set on it by any means and am happy for 
> us to consider alternatives such as Amazon.  I picked GAE out of the air 
> because a) it's popular with a lot of developers and it would be nice to have 
> a "real" CDI/Seam example running on this platform, and b) its free quotas 
> are quite generous.
>
>> I keep in mind that the coming Java EE 7 will be about cloud, so if we want 
>> to communicate and promote this we have to choose an environment that will 
>> probably follow this path.
>>
>> To finish, I'm not very found of having resources split between multiple 
>> sites and users experience and I think we should look for a solution that 
>> will host all Seam resources to give an image of professionalism and 
>> coherence.
>
> The key with creating a successful Seam knowledgebase site is to have it 
> owned by the community.  If we host it at jboss.org then I'm certain it will 
> work against this goal.  That's not to say though that we can't link between 
> the two.  Also, I want to support OpenID (and the new OAuth features you've 
> been working on) on the new site, which we can't do on jboss.org.
>
>>
>>
>> Antoine SABOT-DURAND
>> ---------------------------------------
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>>
>>
>>
>> Le 6 avr. 2011 � 10:14, Shane Bryzak a �crit :
>>
>>> Now that the Seam final release has been out for about a week (and I've
>>> had a chance to gather my wits), I've been thinking a bit about what we
>>> should do with the seamframework.org web site.  I think that we're all
>>> in agreement that we need to do something, however the devil is in the
>>> details - it's plain to me that we can't do a straight migration of all
>>> content to the jboss.org community site and still retain all the value
>>> that the current site provides.
>>>
>>> Essentially, the contents of the site can be broken down into a few
>>> categories:
>>>
>>> 1. Forums
>>> 2. Knowledgebase
>>> 3. Marketing
>>> 4. Reference - links to documentation, downloads, Maven artifacts, etc
>>>
>>> I believe that 1, 3 and 4 are the types of content that we can
>>> successfully host on the jboss.org infrastructure (still accessible from
>>> www.seamframework.org), in a similar way that hibernate.org does it.
>>> What I don't believe that we can host there is the knowledgebase.  I
>>> think that this is one area where we're currently failing our community,
>>> and that we have the potential to make vast improvements on.
>>>
>>> This is where Seam University comes in.  My vision for this is to build
>>> a site that is run with the same collaborative community effort that has
>>> exploded into existence as a result of Seam 3.  This would be a site
>>> where Seam users could submit their own articles, tutorials and tips for
>>> using Seam, and have it properly indexed via a powerful keyword search
>>> algorithm (this bit is quite important).  I know we have in.relation.to,
>>> but the problem with this site is a) only a select few can submit
>>> content to it, b) new content falls off the radar quite quickly and c)
>>> it's mainly centered around product announcements.
>>>
>>> As for hosting this, my preference would be to use Google App Engine so
>>> that the site could double up in purpose as being a showcase of CDI/Seam
>>> technology in the cloud.
>>>
>>> Anyway, these are my initial thoughts on this subject and I would really
>>> love to hear some feedback on these ideas.  So don't be shy to let me
>>> know what you think. :)
>>>
>>> Shane
>>>
>>>
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