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

Hi,


just following up myself ..... the Jira issue I am referring to happens 
to be

http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/CASTOR-2408

As already said, any feedback appreciated ....

Kind Regards
Werner

On 05.04.2010 20:00, Werner Guttmann wrote:
> 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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