Re: I'm Back

On 2/22/08, Roall Lein-Killi <[email protected]> wrote:
>  Good timing. (Inpiring for a new dud to see people come back)
>

Inspiring too to get people around :-)

Just some quick comments:

Please take a look at the mailing lists' archive so you can get some
background info on previously debated approaches to evolution
(searching for 'spring', hibernate, pojo, turbine 2.4,  might help).
There have been lots of talking about it, and even the wiki holds some
interesting info about migrating toward a more service-oriented
architecture (not necessarily tied to any given container)
There's even a http://scarab-incubator.tigris.org/ where we tried to
evolve some experiments (though it didn't get too much traction)

And now, some personal ideas, thrown out in no intended order:
- let's follow the agnostic way.
- Think of services, pojos, don't get tied to anything.
- Isolate the data layer so you can change it 'if needed'.
- Build a good business layer you can later evolve, publish, use from
GWT, EclipseRCP, XmlRPC,XFire,whatever web framework you prefer,
etc....
- Don't try to change the whole world, at least not at once.

_
Jorge