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From: Jonathan C. <jon...@in...> - 2003-02-28 17:21:39
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Wow, it's been well over a year now since we've communicated about the Intentional Prayer Network project. I thought I'd e-mail an update to let you know that this project really isn't dead. Hopefully your e-mail addresses haven't died since then. Things just didn't seem to click for us with the steep Turbine learning curve and so I've been doing a LOT of thinking and waiting on God for the proper timing of things. But some good things have happened in the meantime. Brandon Freitag (Chicago) has joined the project to help with the technical aspect of getting a dedicated Linux server going as well as the marketing aspects of the project. Check out the new logo he put up at http://www.intentional.us. Nothing is in stone, so comments are welcome. I'm writing partly to find out where you are technically, and partly to share the direction of our thinking on this project. I'd really like to hear from you whether or not the following new technology direction fits with your existing skills that you use on your job. I've learned that it's important to find volunteers (including myself) who don't need to scale the learning curve of a new tool. Few developers have the time to learn complex new tools (like Turbine) in their free time. In my job I have a bit of free time now to work on "new" technologies. I've been using JBoss entity beans and session beans with XDoclet and I'm also looking to gain experience with a code generator like UML2EJB (sourceforge) and it's successor AndroMDA (Andromeda, also at sourceforge). I have previous experience with EJB CMP when I worked at is.com so I'm relatively aware of the strengths and pitfalls of EJB development and the importance of tuning. So, at the moment we are thinking that the data layer should be JBoss CMP 2.x entity beans and the business service layer Session Beans. I am currently planning to have working data services (data, business logic, etc) built by May (that's not very far away). At that point, I'm hoping that we can find some Struts and Swing developers to pick up the ball and build the UI portions. Then I can be free to tweak the data service APIs as the UI developers reveal needed modifications. If this was the technical direction that we were to take this project, how does that fit with your existing skill set? And how much interest and availability do you have in helping out with this project? I'll be very interested in hearing from you. Take care, Jonathan Carlson Minneapolis, Minnesota |