General Project Questions
Aaron Held <[email protected]> Tue, 10 Jun 2003 15:30:52 -0400
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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