Jean-Pierre,

Great to hear you're planning to work with the framework. I'd be interested
to hear of the applications you and others are planning to build with it.

I am in the process of setting up a web site which will include several
downloads, focusing on the framework rather than the sample application.
Both source and binaries will be available for download, more clearly laid
out than is possible on the Wrox site. I will also set up a bug reporting
system... I'll post the details here when it's in place.

I'm also planning some major enhancements to the framework. Nothing will
break backward compatibility, however.

In particular:
- A singleton that can be used to bootstrap a bean factory. This will be
useful for standalone apps, although a web.xml-based approach will remain
the best option for web apps.
- Significant enhancements to the load testing package described in the
performance chapter
- New packages offering AOP features. This will be closely integrated with
the bean factory, and will use dynamic proxies to allow interception of
method calls on beans obtained from an AOP-enabled bean factory. Essentially
this will provide a lighter-weight alternative to EJB for many types of
application, offering declarative transaction management and many other
services. I think this is potentially a very exciting area. It will be
somewhat similar in approach to the Nanning project on Sourceforge, although
I think it will benefit from the close integration with the other
interface21 nfrastructure packages.
- Continued improvements to the code-level documentation.
- Clean up build files

I shall also have to think of a catchy name at some point...Any suggestions
welcome!

Regards,
Rod

----- Original Message -----
From: "JP PAWLAK(Tiscali)" <jp.pawlak@t...>
To: "ExpertJ2EE with RodJohnson" <expertj2ee_with_rodjohnson@p...>
Sent: Friday, December 06, 2002 10:43 PM
Subject: [expertj2ee_with_rodjohnson] RE : Source :
com.interface21.jdbc.core


Hello,
This book is today my bible. I am moving my applications to this
framework.
I found the sources of the framework in the zip file, when deployed
under 7841\expert-j2ee-ticket-20020910-0854\framework\src.

But the sources are in one block, so I had to recompose manually the i21
packages by picking the elements and taking the content of the i21xxx
jars as the basis.

Regards,
Jean-Pierre