This is off topic to the Struts list.
Also not forgetting Avalon, PicoContainer, etc from my POV. Admittedly
these mature containers have been around for sometime.
Here are my motivations:
1) To scratch the itch. Build a tiny container/kernel that
I could experiment with in Expresso / Struts. The idea is make
an assembler that can be merged into another toolkit.
(My goal is to make Bridgetown a first class citizen in Expresso, but
I am still scratching my head about this issue.)
2) I wanted to implement ``method injection''.
3) Build a pizza base, that I could extend later with a
dynamic proxy generation / interceptors.
Maybe directly support or use the Commons Chain (this is still
very fuzzy in my mind.)
4) Eventually make services beans and service oriented
architecture first class citizen of a ioc framework.
5) Fun: I wanted to experiment with Jakarta technologies.
6) Learning: I wanted to build something small and wonderful and
it will be always free and open source.
I enabled the sf.net mailing lists, so if you want to discuss
further I suggest we take this thread over there.
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-Original Message-
From: Robert Taylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 08 September 2004 14:10
To: Struts Users Mailing List
Subject: RE: [ANN] Bridgetown IoC Framework
Peter, this sounds interesting, but what would Bridgetown offer
over a more mature IoC container like Spring?
robert
-Original Message-
From: Pilgrim, Peter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2004 3:52 AM
To: Struts User Apache (E-mail)
Subject: FW: [ANN] Bridgetown IoC Framework
FYI
-Original Message-
From: Peter A. Pilgrim [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 08 September 2004 07:12
To: Struts Developers List
Subject: [ANN] Bridgetown IoC Framework
Hi
I have been quietly working on my own Inversion of
Control lightweight
framework over the last couple of months.
My itch was scratched when I suddenly realised that ``Commons
BeanUtils''
and ``Common Digester'' could be simply combined together into a
bean assembly factory. An assembly factory could manage
service beans
in a lightweight container. Services could then be retrieved
by name, and one doesn't have to worry about connecting
different services together. Experiments showed that this idea
was pretty cool and have implemented property and method
dependency
injection (aka ``BeanUtils'' and ``MethodUtils''). [Constructor
injection is on the todo list. ]
I am at the point where the current codebase is stable enough
for development,
but if I want the container to be more useful, then I
need to open-
source the project. It would allow others to write Dynamic proxy
service beans, integrate with Struts 1.2/2+, or extend with
AOP library,
or whatever persistence layer EJB 3.0 decides to become. It
cannot be down
by just one man writing software. As an independent
consultant I simply
have not got the time to build everything.
Moreover, I intend to follow the Struts style ``open integration''
philosophy that should allow Bridgetown IoC container to be added
any other framework. (I intend add support to the Expresso
Framework in
the near term, since I am a core committer there)
So my simple IoC Test Container became ``Bridgetown IoC''. I
uploaded the
source code to ``Sourceforge'' and slapped on it an
Apache License 2.0
badge. The software is ALPHA quality but it compiles and run
with Eclipse SDK 3, and there are junit test and a couple
of examples.
`` http://bridgetown.sf.net '' is the hook.
I'd like publicly thank the man, Craig McClanahan, for his
two inventions
`BeanUtils' and `Digester'. Without those two components it
just wouldn't
have happened.
Enjoy baby bop#
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