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Re: Grizzly ROADMAP: 1.9.x and 2.0 -> Time to speak!

From: doris chen <Doris.Chen_at_Sun.COM>
Date: Fri, 09 Oct 2009 10:40:33 -0700

See comments/questions below
Jeanfrancois Arcand wrote:
> Salut,
>
> Now that we are *almost* saved from GlassFish work (almost :-)), we
> will eventually have time to come back here and do what we like,
> which is to make the community happy and add new features. I would
> like to start a new thread discussions about where peoples want to
> focus on.
>
> Hubert has done great work on the Deployer and Sebastien on annotation
> support. What's next? I would propose we work on two things:
>
> (1) Grizzly 2.0 FCS, with a back to back white paper as a
> pre-requisite for release. I sign up for the white paper :-)
>
> (2) Forward port all the http/http-servlet-XX/Comet/OSGi works to
> Grizzly 2.0
>
> ** Anybody interested to contribute I will give committer privileges
> for free :-) **
>
>
> Now I would like to vote on the following topic:
>
> 1. Should the Servlet Container works be only on top of 2.0? Or should
> we make sure both version are supported?
>
> 2. Should 1.9.19 be *our last* 1.9.x release with new features, and
> then we move to sustaining mode?
>
> 3. Should we refactor *entirely* the http module API and make sure it
> is aligned with Grizzly 2.0 new design? I'm tempted to refactor
> everything but we will break a lot of applications
It's a tough decision. Will this refactoring also break all the sample
code (chat, twitter, etc)? Will it be easy to fix afterwards?
>
> 4. Gitub or Kenai? For sure we MUST move out of java.net
Gitub sounds good me.
>
> 5. Should we drop Cometd support? Cometd.org can be run using Grizzly
> Comet + Atmosphere
Cometd approach attracts a lot of developers (especially for beginners)
to try developing comet application, as it is very easy to get started
with. If we have a chat application (developed with Dojo cometd
package), can we run it on Comet+Atmosphere without any code change?

Thanks,

Doris
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> Please share your vision :-)
>
> A+
>
> -- Jeanfrancois
>
>
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