General Project Questions

Aaron Held <[email protected]> Tue, 10 Jun 2003 15:30:52 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.comp.java.javalobby.communityplatform
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I have a couple of general questions about the project, but I'll 
understand it nobody answers until after JavaOne.

1) Are there any plans for a swing GUI?
2) Will you be following PostNuke URLS?? ?module=gallery&file=....
2a) Can it support clean URLS (/modules/gallers/file/,,,)
3) Are there any live sites using the engine?
3a) Are there any performance benchmarks?
4) What is the infrastructure?  Stuts / WW2 ???
5) Is there an application flow map anywhere? I am trying to follow the 
logic and get lost somewhere after LayoutServlet ;)


The rambling background....

I have deployed my fair share of PHPNuke/Postnuke sites over the years 
and I am on the eternal quest for a better solution.  It is simply too 
difficult to keep customizing, patching and upgrading miles of PHP to 
get what I want.

One of the sites that I built (http://www.ManalapanSoccerClub.com) (My 
son is the sweatshirt model w/ the purple face in the apparel 
section...) is having a hard time maintaining the content of the site, 
so I was thinking about building a GUI and some modules specific to 
thier needs. (Like a Documents and Forms page).  Adding a module to the 
php nuke site is very easy (The photo gallery is about 40 lines of code 
and did not require a restart to install).

I am going either to build one myself in Webware for Python 
(webware.sf.net) or Zope's Plone.  (I'm not going to go the Java route 
if I am the sole developer of a custom app)

The main reason that I want to go with a Java/Python implementation is 
that I want to be able to extend a generic system in a cleaner way then 
is possibile with PHP.

I am also developing another site that may (hopefully) see a lot of 
traffic and they PHP version cannot handle a large load w/ my 
modifications.  So I either have to rewrite that without basing it on an 
open project or get a bigger box.

Hopefully there will be some slides from JavaONE that I can see that 
will answer these questions.
(I would have loved to go again, but nowadays I have to do silly things 
like justify travel expenses.....)

Thanks,
-Aaron Held