On Monday 15 March 2004 11:32, Vijay Kumar AB wrote: > Hi...From what ever documentation I went rhough > Fortress seems to be the right framework to start working on for Stand > alone applications..CORRECT ME IF I AM WORNG
I would strongly recommend that noone use Fortress for any new development, as it is going into a kind of transitional termination, meaning we will continue to support bug fixes for a while, and then terminate the Fortress branch. The same goes for Excalibur and its Component Manager. A few days a go the community agreed on a Single Platform strategy, meaning Merlin will become the reference container and the only container developed within the Avalon project itself. > ALSO can anybody share any source/simple application that is developed > using Avalon. Not complex..As simple as possible. Merlin comes with some fairly simple examples. It is still work-in-progress (like just about everything), and I am not sure exactly was included in the latest release, but checkout the CVS in avalon/merlin/platform/tutorials DId I mention that you should investigate Merlin, as the platform for you? Some of the most appreciated features are; * Automatic assembly of component dependencies. * Central Repository of Jars, meaning no need to specify classpaths to Jars, and keep track of which version of Jars is required etc... No more JAR Hell. * Possible to bootstrap Merlin via command-line of the version of your choice. * Strong Type checking during assembly/composition. * Aggregated Components, meaning assemble a set of components, and make that into a new Service/Component. Other features; * Custom Context entries. * Custom Context subclasses. * Extensions through many hooks. Some of the developments that are in progress or will start soon; * Better embeddable support. * Merlin manage your Servlets as they were components. * Pluggable LifeCycles. * Component-based Security * Subject-based Security (JAAS leverage) Finally, Merlin will also be supported in the development IDE, through MerlinDeveloper, an Eclipse plugin. One feature is sometimes not appreicated: Too Much Magic, but Merlin was all about Magic :o) Cheers Niclas -- +---------//-------------------+ | http://www.bali.ac | | http://niclas.hedhman.org | +------//----------------------+ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
