[Springframework-developer] Demo/tutorial content

[Ken K. <kk...@kk...>]

To Juergen,

Thanks for your offer of input to the demo apps. I especially look forward to your code reviews. Feel free to slash away unmercifully as I hope to learn a lot while doing this. I will save my ego-tripping temper tantrums for when I am on the golf course  :-) .



To all,

There certainly was a lot of activity this weekend regarding the server/database platform selection. I had also hoped to get some input on the content and form of the demo/tutorials but people seem to be more interested in the platform selection at least for now. Hopefully we can settle on the platforms soon and move on.

I anticipate that eventually we will settle on at least 2 major flavors of the Petclinic demo/tutorial each consisting of several discrete stages and possibly side trails. The first will probably be a simple webapp without transactions or EJB's that does not require a full J2EE application server. The first stage of this will probably have very limited functionality and probably have approx. 5-8 display pages, a few of which are forms.

I am very interested in getting input from developers as to what features and advantages of using Spring they think need to be emphasized and in what flavors/stages they should be included.

I will very soon be posting some content suggestions for the first stage of the first flavor of the Petclinic. Please feel free to make your own comments and/or suggestions on this.


Regards,
Ken