> -----Original Message----- > From: Niclas Hedhman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2004 1:49 PM > To: Avalon framework users > Subject: Re: PowerPoint presentation > > On Thursday 04 March 2004 02:21, Vikas Phonsa wrote: > > 1. I read the "Developing with Avalon" article to start with. IOC and > other > > concepts were digested well enough, but it had ( haven't taken a look > > lately) Excalibur and some excalibur specific concepts mentioned in it. > And > > I couldn't find examples to explain those concepts. If those examples > > existed I couldn't find those.
I'd actually like to redo the Developing with Avalon and have a more generic introduction to Inversion of Control / Separation of Concerns white paper (beginnings are at http://wiki.apache.org/avalon/WhatIsIoC ) > > 2.Then I was confused for ever abt which container to use. There is > stuff > > abt this now in wiki but the more the better. At that point I didn't > care > > abt benefits of one over another, I just wanted to get started somewhere. > > Yes. This is a frequently occuring question. The problem is that the > Avalon > developer community can't even agree on this, and how to proceed. Please > join > the just started discussion on [EMAIL PROTECTED] and express your > views. Yes. Anyone in the user community is encouraged to offer their own two cents: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=107832888500006&r=1&w=2 http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=107833047300001&r=1&w=2 > > 6. I couldn't find a Merlin based webapp downloadable in a zip format > which > > just holds a war that I could place in tomcat and run. There was that > > Merlin Servlet but it shouldn't be expected of beginners to get that > from > > cvs and try to use it. But again Aaron is working on something in this > > regard. > > This is so new (couple of months), that we haven't spent enough time on > producing good usage patterns around the MerlinServlet. This is also true > for > the opposite, using Jetty inside Merlin and have Merlin manage the > servlets. There's spots in the wiki for updates! (see the howto section). I'll hopefully have a .war example for Merlin by this next weekend. > > 7. I think a really cool example would be to have a simple application > > written in non-avalon way and then show users how to convert that into > > Avalon form and explain the benefits. > > If you have such a "non-Avalon" app available, I think I and Aaron could > take > a shot at it. (And don't send us JBoss or similar :o) ) Sounds like a fine idea. I was starting to do something similar with my 'mutuals' example. And I think Timothy's webserver example is a good candidate for this sort of thing. J. Aaron Farr SONY ELECTRONICS DDP-CIM (724) 696-7653 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
