[Jchassis-devel] JChassis update

[<sjs...@ya...>]

Hi all,

Its been over a month since the last update. My only
excuse is that I've spent 3 weeks designing & writing a software
project for the unit I'm co-ordinating this semester. It
actually uses JChassis Object Store (which I will mention 
below).

Whats been happening in JChassis? I'm glad you asked ...
I have had some discussions with Mark White (managing director
in a company called Apviva at the moment (www.apviva.com); 
he is the ex Vice President and GM of RedHat Pacific-Asia Inc) 
about collaboration with other companies. He is interested 
in JC for the embedded Java market, suggesting perhaps 
Nokia would be interested for example. He suggests getting 
a couple of companies to evaluate it, altough its not 
quite ready  for that yet (soon though!). Sounds like
the feedback from this alone would be worthwhile ...

What's remaining before release?

1. Some coding (not much)
I have written all of the hard parts now. The guts of
the tools for handling "modules" (like ".deb" packages, 
but for Java projects, instead of for Debian Linux) are 
done - just needs the applications that wrap around them:
all very straightforward. The hard part, the dependency 
solving is now done as a separate API that is useful in its own
right 

2. Documentation
All though copiously javadoc'd, some user-doc is
'needed to tie it all together, so the user isn't
left saying "What the **** is this all about".

3. Examples
Some compelling examples are essential. I'm thinking
a personal task manager would be one good thing to try. 
Interested Wes?

4. Package
Package it up and away we go ....

5. "Advertising"
SourceForge, Freshmeat, newgroups, cheerleaders :-) anything else?

What I've gotten around to doing since the last update:

* The best part (or worst) of the coding for the "module" tools.
See http://jchassis.sourceforge.net/v1/util/apidoc/index.html under
the org.jchassis.depend package, for the dependency stuff. The module
tools doco isn't online yet, except in the CVS tree.

* A protype of a lightweight object storage API - ideal for 
client preferences, mini-databases, etc. Not on the web site yet: 
only visble in the CVS tree.

That all, I've been too busy at work ... this week is better though.
I hope to get more done.

Stay tuned,
Sam.





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