Re: what is current status and likely future of turbine ?

Tony Oslund wrote:
> Adoption of technology should be based upon things such as need, cost,
> ease of use, maintainability, and availability of resources, past
> success, amongst others.  
>
> I find that Turbine in conjunction with Velocity serves these needs very
> well.
>
> I have also wondered at times why this site is very quiet, and then I
> realize that I rarely need to post questions, since there is the
> archive. 
>
> It would be a shame to see a great technology fall by the wayside simply
> because it has been successful, people learn it quickly, the community
> has been supportive, and because others make more noise.
>
> You used the term "several projects", which probably means several
> successful projects.
>
> Perhaps more noise is the answer...
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nick Ide [mailto:[email protected]] 
> Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2008 4:10 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: what is current status and likely future of turbine ? 
>
>
> We have built several projects in the past using turbine.
> We are beginning a new project and trying to decide whether to
> use turbine or try something else. 
> We are a little concerned that turbine is dead or dying from lack of 
> community.
>
> My questions:
>
> 1. When will turbine 2.3.3 be released ?
> 2. Is anybody working on that release ?
> 3. Is there any active work on the turbine code base ?
> 4. If there is no work, is that because it all just works or because 
> everybody has abandoned turbine in favor of something else ?
> 5. Probably asking the crowd since the people who voted with their feet 
> have stopped listening, but what do you suppose
> people have adopted to use instead of turbine ?  is it VelocityStruts ?
>
> is it Spring ?  Others ?
>
>
> -Nick
>
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Just thought I would pop in real quick to let you all know that this is 
something I have been very interested in as well. I have worked heavily 
with a turbine project for the last 3 years and it has worked quite well 
for me. I am about to start a new project, and was also curious if 
turbine is dead, or if its just completed and bug free...

AFrieze