Hi Martin & Martin, I know all my flight information now so I have firm dates when the little conference can be held. The 28th and the 29th of April are good for me. If we have enough material then we can do a two day event. I will be in Amsterdam from the 22nd though if anyone wants to meet up before the Turbine conference. I'll be at the AOP conference during the day if anyone else is going but I will be free at night.
Some preliminary topics might be as follows: Using Maven ----------- How to make project development easier using Maven. How Maven is used to build the Turbine projects and how you can use it to allow for easier project management and 'project comprehension'. 2-3 hours Using Fulcrum ------------- How to create services using Fulcrum. We can also talk about different packages that Turbine developers have discussed integrating: JMX for management and Axis to quickly make your services web services. 2-3 hours. Turbine 3.x Roadmap and Features -------------------------------- A discussion of plans for the new version of Turbine. A roadmap and some sample applications. How we want to modularize everything, push as much of our utility code into the commons and start using a component model to make development easier. 1-2 hours Using Persistence Layers ------------------------ Discussion of using Torque and OJB in your Turbine applications. Thomas Mahler, the author of OJB (http://objectbridge.sourceforge.net), has agreed to be available for the 28th and 29th to discuss using OJB and what Thomas has planned in the future for OJB. Thomas currently doesn't know anything about Turbine but he said he would take a peek and see how OJB might be integrated into Turbine. 2-3 hours. Workflow -------- I'm still not sure how I would attack this topic but it will codify over the next month. I'm going down to Atlanta to visit Bob McWhirter to get a prototype workflow system working that is based on Drools: the RETE-00 based rules engine that Bob has cooked up. An engine like this could be used for things as such as hairly form validation in webapps or GUIs and very complicated workflows such as tracking the lifecycle of book in production (what i'm interested in) or the lifecycle of an issue in Scarab (I know that jon is looking at different approaches as well). These are topics that I'm interested in discussing but if others have something they want to hear about let me know. I am going to prepare the material anyway but please try to let one of the Martin's know if you're interested in participating. If we can only fill the one day then the second day can be for open discussion, working through solutions for your projects or whatever. I'll make myself available if people are interested. -- jvz. Jason van Zyl [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://tambora.zenplex.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
