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Ali Kheirolomoom wrote:
> However there cannot be an "active tool user" community in the
traditional sense until ALF implementations exist for a number of products.
This concerns me, and I think it goes to the heart of my inability to
understand: Why? If ALF includes developer or client side tools in its
charter, shouldn't you be able to implement them in the open source
project itself, as examples? If it's strictly a server-side technology,
shouldn't you be able to demonstrate an open source sample application
or extension to an existing open source server (such as Tomcat) that
uses the APIs/vocabulary/whatever?
I'm not able to reconcile the inability to test/demonstrate/vet the
approach in an open source fashion with the idea that it covers the
entire lifecycle of an application, a very rich and fertile area for
tooling and user support.