I've been quiet on this one, but since I finally had a breakthrough today, I feel like talking about it :)
I started a pet project that I've been toying around in my head for a while. As a parent, I coach a few elementary and junior high sports. It is a volunteer thing, and if offered pay, I would refuse it (the schools need the money more than I do). The biggest complaint that parents have though is that they feel like we don't provide enough information, etc. Sometimes I want to tell the parents that complain to shove it :), but as a parent myself, I feel the same way about teachers, so I try to do a better job each season. Since I setup a wordpress/phpBB site a while back (which I haven't been too diligent about updating), I thought about doing something similar. Having dealt once with wordpress/phpBB, I have vowed to never do it again. In an attempt to "eat-my-own-dog-food," I decided to do this all from scratch with s2 and friends. So, I'm creating a site that is centered around managing a team. The goal is to make a resource for parents and fans to discuss the teams and athletes. It will mostly be a knock-off of other blogs and forums, but it will provide some extra functionality for whichever sport is being managed. So, stats, pictures and videos can be uploaded. A schedule can be viewed (and managed by coaches). Coaches can blog about the various events (matches, tournaments, etc.). And, users can post in a forum (polls, regular forums). The fun part - The site is struts 2.1.?-SNAPSHOT based using Maven, Spring, Hibernate (JPA), SiteMesh, Acegi, and Prototype/JQuery (haven't decided yet). I'm using the codebehind plugin and other than acegi, I've hardly written any configuration at all! It's wonderful. The breakthrough I had was that I've created something like 40 entities so far and just began work on s2 actions. I was crossing my fingers that my generic dao, codebehind and spring autowire would allow me to code by convention and that things would work properly. Imagine my surprise when I had my first action working in less than a few hours! When I'm done, I may yank the guts out and post an integrated blog/forum project to sourceforge as an example of s2/spring/sitemesh/jpa with hints of AJAX, but that's a ways out... -Wes --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
