[news.eclipse.technology.ecp] Re: Proposed project name

[Wendell Beckwith <wbeckwith@xxxxxxxxx>]

Boy I hope all this proposed project name stuff isn't my fault.  I was 
just concerned early on that that the Exadel marketing _might_ think 
they could drive the project in a non-open manner by specifying names, 
packages, etc.  In retrospect I shouldn't have been concerned since the 
Eclipse rules for project creation clearly specify how the community of 
contributors and committers must operate to be successful.

Now to wade back into the "proposed named" waters, I would just want the 
name to generally reflect the artifacts produced.  In our case we're 
looking at bundles or JSR-291/JSR-277 thingees when that work is 
complete.  Therefore important questions we should resolve are:

1. Do we expect some of our bundles to run in a non-osgi environment?

If possible I think we should at the very least not go out of our way to 
prevent it.  Spring is a good example of a framework that provides a 
_preferred_ way of building your applications.  However if you can't go 
the full DI container approach then you can use just the resource 
loading abstractions or the AOP proxy support.

2. Will we have integration with other platform environments like JEE, 
JME and Portals?

For an enterprise these are important issues and we should at least have 
a strategy for dealing with the Weblogic, Websphere, Geronimo, JBoss and 
Tomcats of the world.  The current E5 example has Tomcat embedded in the 
OSGi framework as bundles.  What if for integration or clustering 
support we needed to reverse the model and deploy the ECP (yes, I'm now 
picking a TLA.  I can learn what the letters stand for later) encased in 
a WAR or EAR file.

3. What Eclipse tools or other projects are we looking to build on to 
bring about Enterprise Components world domination 2.0 (patent pending)?

The recently approved PHP project is looking to leverage a lot of 
functionality from the WTP.  Is that a goal we will have too?  That 
could effect the name for some people as we might be more of an 
extension with bundles to another project over a full platform.  Also 
can we utilize code or the ideas from other projects like the WTP server 
connectors.  Is that code in a way that we can use/extend it?


Wb

Alex Antonau wrote:
> In my opinion Enterprise Component Platform or Eclipse Enterprise 
> Component Platform exactly describe the project. Regarding unofficial 
> name, I would name it  Terminator. ;) In the atronomical meaning of course:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminator_(solar)
>
> Alex