[Jpolls-developers] Tasks

[Jorge L. de C. <jo...@ho...>]

Hello fellow developers,

For those of you ready to tackle the jpolls code and produce some =
serious hacks, I've got a list of things that could be part of the next =
release. Whatever you don't handle I'll do it myself. Feel free to come =
up with other suggestions of your own.

The priorities for v2.4.X are:

1) Poll servlet accepting poll id and outputting poll HTML with CSS =
support. CSS support can be added later at no cost. Basically, to start =
with the servlet would replicate the behavior of the JSP code available =
in /views/pages/pollForm.jsp.
2) Add a J2ME module that integrates smoothly and allows J2ME devices to =
be part of an enormous pool of polls. We need 1) sorted to get this one =
up and running.
3) Add a configuration editor and module. Basically, this would be a JSP =
page along the lines of /views/pages/pollUpdateEditor.jsp, populated     =
    with the configuration data on polls-config.xml from an Struts =
action, where the configuration parameters could be changed via dropdown =
menus and checkboxes. Changes would, of course, be persisted onto the =
same xml file.
4) Look for bottlenecks, concurrency access and violations, code =
optimizations. Even if not found on the code itself, I am interested in =
places where you spotted slow responsiveness and weird behavior.

I will be handling the following items anyways (unless one of you really =
wants to get his hands dirty):

-PDF documentation
-More goodies such as overlaid charts, charts for this, charts for that
-Implement getPollResults(Long pollId) method to persistence services. =
Will return results for the given poll only.
-Add poll charts to poll editor view
-Add small customizable Applet/Flash audio/video player to poll options. =
I'll burn the audio player bridge first. Not only I'm faster handling =
audio but it's also easier to tackle than video. I'm also concerned =
about providing video upload to my currently borrowed servers -despite =
having full control on the uploadable file size. People tend to abuse =
generosity :-)


The following issues with 2.4.0 were solved/updated:
1) Replaced hardcode references with friendlier keys on Constants =
package.=20
2) Added improved Polish localization
3) Fixed issue with locale change to English by adding explicit English =
resources.

Cheers
j.


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