Re: [castor-dev] GSoC 2010 - Castor - a students introduction

Hi Philipp,

thanks for the introduction, much appreciated. Given the obvious area of 
interest, here's a few things I'd like to get your opinion about before 
(whilst) reviewing an official GSOC proposal.

There's already a patch attached to a Jira issue that has (partial) 
support for StaX. Could I get your opinion on this ? Whatever comes to 
your mind when looking at this for the first time would make a nice read.

I guess we'll take it from there ... ;-).

Cheers
Werner

On 02.04.2010 16:28, Philipp Erlacher wrote:
> Hello,
> I'm interested in participating in Google Summer of Code this year and
> I want to contribute to the Castor project.
>
> First, I'm going to briefly introduce myself.
> My name is Philipp Erlacher and I am 23 years old. I am an undergraduate
> student at the Vienna University of Technology
> and my major subject is Software&  Information Engineering. I am going
> to be graduating in January 2011.
>
> Second, I am interested in doing the "StaX for un-/marshaling" project.
> In the course this project, some interesting tasks may arise which I
> would like to face:
> * separating the MarshalHandler functionality into two layers,
> * extending the functionality so that StaX is supported within the XML
> data binding framework itself
> * evaluating the "partial support for using StaX" and checking whether
> to reuse existing code or to rewrite it
> * making sure that the greens remains green
> * investigating other projects that recently added support for StaX,
> like Apache Cocoon
>
> Third, what to I expect to gain from the contribution to Castor?
> * knowledge about Castor,
> * usage of test driven development and a deepened understanding for
> their importance
> * having many well tested patches committed,
> * having the confidence, that my produced code will help Castor users
> and developers,
> * being fluent in open source community communication,
> * having an awesome 40-hour summer job,
> * getting experienced
> * fun (learning, reading, coding, thinking = fun)
>
> As Castor is probably "the shortest path between Java objects, XML
> documents and relational tables"
> I am going to improve my skills in those areas.
>
> Warm regards,
> Philipp
>
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