Re: General Project Questions

Aaron,
   Thanks for your interest in JLCP.  The questions you 
are asking are things that have come up a lot recently! 
 First, there are no plans for a swing gui, but it should 
be pretty easy to expose the data via webservices.  2nd, 
we are following somethin similar to postnuke urls, but 
this may change.  3rd, we'd love to support clean urls. 
 Do you want to volunteer to implement that?  4th, check 
out www.thefitpros.com for a live site.  It runs on WW2 
and will be using more of JLCP (including a CMS engine) in 
the next 2 weeks or so I think.  As for performance 
benchmarks, we haven't run any yet since our core hasn't 
been particularly stable.  I'll hit it hard with a web 
stress test after this next release.  4th, the 
infrastructure is Struts right now, but we have plans to 
switch to WW2 in the next 2 weeks.  And 5th, no logic flow 
unfortunately.  We'll try and get that mapped out soon. 
  Some automatically generated diagrams would be nice.  

JLCP should be sufficient for what you need, and it should 
handle the load pretty well (of course we'll do some 
testing on that).  If you have more questions, please ask 
me.  We will also try to see if we can get the J1 slides 
released after the presentation.  I'm not sure how Sun 
will handle that, but we'll just have to see :)

-Matt

On Tue, 10 Jun 2003 15:30:52 -0400
  Aaron Held <[email protected]> wrote:
>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
>