Hi Jay, Thanks for the comments, I think the pdf of the above specified guide is a cool addition. We need to find a mechanism to generate the pdf from the xdoc pages. I will work on this and try to add a pdf of the documents too.
Thanks, Ruwan On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 2:14 AM, Jaeger, Jay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just a quick follow up on a message I sent long, long ago. > > The new configuration document at > http://synapse.apache.org/Synapse_Configuration_Language.html seems much > improved -- some good ground-level explanations of structure, examples, a > basic explanation of what Axis2 is doing there, and so on. > > Now, that being said, one small critique: because of the way it is laid > out, it won't print reasonably from some certain browsers made by a vendor > whose name begins with "M" unless you print it in landscape mode. It > would > be really nice to see a PDF of this thing. > > (The Quick Start guide has the same kind of issue). > > Overall, though, a really nice job. Keep up the good work. > > Jay Jaeger > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jaeger, Jay > Sent: Monday, October 01, 2007 7:54 AM > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: RE: any news about new version of synapse? > > > I would like to add my voice to those who have expressed interest in JDBC > as > an interface/transport for synapse. > > We have a number of systems in our organization which interact in an > unstructured way, by reading from and writing to each others' databases. > We > have found that in trying to institute more of an SOA approach, that it > has > been very hard to convince projects to invest even modest amounts of time > to > build or user service interfaces. The single biggest reason I am > following > developments of synapse is a hope that if we could expose those databases > in > a more structured way, by coupling an HTTP service to a JDBC SQL Query > (with > data in our out) we could "lift" these interactions out of application > code > into service interfaces without having to write code. Once we have some > services, the client side requesting the service will probably fall into > place, and once we do that, then I think it will be easier to get folks to > define higher level service interfaces. > > But we have to start somewhere, and getting started has proved > challenging. > > I would a;lso point out the need for some higher level documentation / > tutorial. The tutorial is great for installation verification, and as > code > examples, but is not so great for trying to figure out what synapse might > actually be good for, or for understanding what all the pieces do. (For > example, a newbie might ask, what the heck is Axis2, anyway....). > Ordinarily, it is the kind of thing I might volunteer to dig in and do, > but > with a full time "day job" plus teaching a 3 credit course at the local > tech > school in Linux (with labs and all that -- coming to another 12 hours/week > including class time), I just won't have the time. > > JRJ > > -- Ruwan Linton http://www.wso2.org - "Oxygenating the Web Services Platform"
