27 June 2004 - java_dev (original) (raw)

I put in a new template for maven genapp for the creation of eclipse pugins. Its just a patch at the moment. http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MPGENAPP-15

I am thinking I should just create a separate project of my own where I can dump my genapp templates without waiting for the apache group. Not that they are slow or anything, but I would want to see this Maven plug-in get more templates for people to use. I guess they're busy trying to get to the release date.

To date, I have created the following templates
http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MPGENAPP-6 Session + Entity EJB with Cactus tests
http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MPGENAPP-6 Struts
http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MPGENAPP-6 Struts + JSTL
http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MPGENAPP-6 Simple web app with Cactus Tests
http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MPGENAPP-6 Simple web app + JSTL with Cactus Tests
http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MPGENAPP-6 Web app + session + entity EJB
http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MPGENAPP-9 Struts + Validator

I guess creating these templates are a bit fun for me, it gives me an idea on how to build stuff with the minimum amount of features so that other people can just add on their customizations on top of it. My ideal job at the moment is custom framework creation, I wouldn't mind having a full time job like that. Custom framework may seem a bit oxymoronic, but its not really, as you know there are many frameworks out there some good and some bad, but not all of them can support every single business problem, what I would like to do is build frameworks by using and extending existing frameworks to make customer specific application frameworks that development teams can just take advantage of.