Could you maybe send the email to the newsgroup? We would have the
thread in archive, which might be useful in future for others.
It is the end of my business day now (I'm in Europe/Poland). I'll
respond tomorrow.
But in short. Your understanding of Corona is more or less accurate.
And I'm really impressed that you could catch it from this description!
The new one is being in preparation... hope to have it soon.
BTW. We do integrate with Buckminster :)
Marcin
Bryan Hunt wrote:
If Corona does what I think it does, I plan on using it in a production
environment for an internal tool. Historically, our environment tends
to break all tools that don't take scaling into account. if Corona can
survive our production environment, it will be a solid product. From
what I can tell, Corona is fundamentally an Eclipse server-side
framework, and on top of that, you have a collaboration service for
sharing workspaces. Do I have this correct? It also looks like there
might be the ability to "deploy" new plug-ins as services?
Communication to the services can happen from either other Eclipse
clients directly, or from non-eclipse client via SOAP (web services).
Am I on track? We were starting to build exactly what I've described,
but if that is where Corona is headed, we would prefer to not re-invent
the wheel, and simply create plug-ins (services) to be deployed in
Corona.
BTW, I might suggest looking at the introduction to Buckminster. They
did an awesome job with their intro, and I knew exactly what the tool
did. The services based projects such as Corona, STP, ALF, etc tend to
use words, phrases, and descriptions that are not easily understood by
those not versed in the buzzwords. Personally, when I read about these
projects, I think I have an idea as to what the project does, but I
could be wrong. And, I certainly have no idea how I might use that
technology in our application. If those introductions were written
like the Buckminster intro, I could easily determine: yep, we need to
incorporate this technology into our product, or nope, we don't need
that. Just some food for thought.