[Cross-Post] Perl Widget Library => P5EE

Hi,

Here is a message I just sent out to the members of the

  [email protected]

mailing list.

It is of interest to this list, so I am cross-posting it here.

Stephen

>Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 10:17:49 -0500
>To: [email protected]
>From: Stephen Adkins <[email protected]>
>Subject: Perl Widget Library => P5EE
>
>Hi,
>
>There's been no traffic on this list for a while.
>This email is to update you on what has been going on.
>
>I am using the PWL in production at one of my customers.
>This causes me to periodically update the CVS repository with
>the latest code.
>
>However, my attention has switched to the P5EE (Perl 5 Enterprise
>Environment) project at
>
>   http://www.officevision.com/pub/p5ee/
>
>Everything in the Perl Widget Library that was good has found
>its way into P5EE, so the PWL has no independent future.
>Anyone of you subscribed to this list who still are interested
>in Perl widgets as they were being developed here should subscribe
>to the P5EE mailing list and follow unfolding developments there.
>
>Here is a brief history of how this came to be.
>
> * I have long sought a way to create complex HTML UI's out of
>   reusable components (widgets)
> * Discussion began on the mod_perl list concerning a widget
>   library, to which I responded by starting this Sourceforge
>   project.
> * I think what was envisioned by most participants was a very 
>   lightweight library.
> * I, however, envisioned tight integration with Controller
>   and Repository (persistence) components to facilitate
>   active controls (with encapsulated event handling and bubbling
>   to container widgets) and data-aware controls.
> * As I developed the concept, I realized that the Controller
>   component really deserved to be central to a more far-reaching
>   framework than just a widget library.  Furthermore, many other
>   facilities (Config, debugging, etc.) were being duplicated
>   between my separately developed Perl Widget Library and
>   Perl Data Repository distributions.
> * Discussion began on the mod_perl list concerning a
>   "J2EE for Perl" framework (later dubbed "P5EE").  I recognized
>   this as a project that I wanted to be involved with, and I 
>   responded by beginning work on the definition of P5EE.
>      http://www.officevision.com/pub/p5ee/
> * It became apparent over time that many of the services I was
>   working on for the Perl Widget Library were really appropriate
>   for the P5EE, and the Widget library itself was but a small
>   piece of the P5EE.  So I migrated all of the PWL code over
>   to the P5EE project, and further development continues there.
>
>So the Perl Widget Library is a dead end project, but all of the
>promise that it held is alive and well in the P5EE project.
>Feel free to unsubscribe from the perl-widget-developer mailing list.
>From now on, all of the Perl Widget activity will be in the 
>P5EE project.
>
>Stephen
>
>