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

From: Jeanfrancois Arcand <Jeanfrancois.Arcand_at_Sun.COM>
Date: Fri, 09 Oct 2009 13:55:54 -0400

Salut,

doris chen wrote:
> 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?

It really depend on what we will change. But yes it may break all of
those. But the idea here will be to release only when all the samples
are back to work normally.


>>
>> 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?

Yes. The Atmosphere Bayeux Plug In allow you to run the official
Cometd.org implementation on top of any Web Server, including Grizzly.
GlassFish v3 will also ship with Atmosphere Bayeux.

Thanks!

-- Jeanfrancois


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