Re: Re: Roadmap?

Hi,

> But couple of my questions still remains. What is the roadmap of
> Barracuda? What next? Any plans on anything?
> You said - "like configurable bindings between events and classes - are
> available in core barracuda. " Could you please talk a lil more about
> what bindings exist other than application assembler?

That was what I was talking about - application assembler :) 

I have to say that I personally don't like late binding too much - at least 
not in java. In python its a wonderful thing, but... in Java, I _have_ to 
deal with the compiler anyway, so I want to make it puke on me whenever I try 
to stitch things together the wrong way.

I also don't like configurable forms too much - no disrespect for Stefan's 
work here! - its just that unless you have a very generic persistence layer 
which basically only deals with key-value-pairss, you'll always have to 
somehow ensure that your form maps properly to your data objects. And I 
prefer that to be done at compiletime, or at least by people (developers so 
to speak) that know what they are doing :) So from my POV you don't get much 
from letting others define what forms you have to deal with. But thats only 
my personal opinion!

Regarding a general roadmap - I think barracuda is quite "complete" for what 
it tries to do. There are some fields I'd think that could be useful 
(serverside scriptable template directives) so that layout guys can do more 
with whatever data model is provided to them - but aside from that, I don't 
see much. Or maybe better tool integration - but for me beeing a console/
(x)emacs freak, thats not too much. What just this second as I'm writing 
springs to mind is that maybe xdoclets for creating forms based on 
data-objects might be a good idea.

But basically every greater step we take from here would lead to the road to 
application server land. Which is a thing I'm not so sure I want to go. But 
again, this is my opinion. 

So finally - there is no general roadmap in the moment, which might be because 
back then barracuda was more to be integrated with enhydra, which covered a 
lot of aspects you might come up with.

Regards,

Diez