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[dentaku-devel] FASD project: Online survey launched

[<ben...@id...>]

Dear Open Source developer

I am doing a research project on "Fun and Software Development" in which I kindly invite you to participate.
You will find the online survey under http://fasd.ethz.ch/qsf/. The questionnaire consists of 53 questions and you will need about 15 minutes to complete it.

With the FASD project (Fun and Software Development) we want to define the motivational significance of fun when software developers decide to engage in Open Source projects. What is special about our research project is that a similar survey is planned with software developers in commercial firms. This procedure allows the immediate comparison between the involved individuals and the conditions of production of these two development models. Thus we hope to obtain substantial new insights to the phenomenon of Open Source Development.


With many thanks for your participation,
Benno Luthiger


PS:
The results of the survey will be published under http://www.isu.unizh.ch/fuehrung/blprojects/FASD/.
We have set up the mailing list fa...@we... for this study. Please see http://fasd.ethz.ch/qsf/mailinglist_en.html for registration to this mailing list.

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Benno Luthiger
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
8092 Zurich

Mail: benno.luthiger(at)id.ethz.ch
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[dentaku-devel] Client architectural considerations

[Brian T. <to...@bi...>]

I really like the feel of having a fat client.  And there definitely =
needs to
be a HTML client.  So I am considering using <stxx/>, which basically =
allows
the view to be completely XML driven.  It's a bit of extra work on the =
front
end, but I've done it before with a smaller project and am comfortable =
using
that code to get the transforms working within a day or so. =20

The nice thing about using XML everywhere is that the core reporting =
engine
can just cook XML, then send it off to the client for rendering, whether =
the
client is a fat client running standalone, a web application that is =
going to
transform it into HTML or PDF using <stxx/> or some other application =
type
that requires some other format. =20

What I am concerned about is my XSL skills... they are good enough for
government work, but maybe not passable for a system as complex as this. =
 Are
there any takers for doing reports in XSL?  Since the HTML table =
generation
is done in Struts Tiles, I don't think there will be a need for the =
entire UI
to be done this way, just the reports that fit into the tiles.  And I =
would
like to get some simple reports going as proof-of-concept for the =
overall
architecture ASAP.  I don't think the reports need to be anything but a =
basic
format text dump to start with.=20

If you have any XSL skills and would like to join, please drop me a note =
off
or on list!

Brian

[dentaku-devel] Current Status

[Brian T. <to...@bi...>]

Well, nobody is on the list yet, but I'm going to start this rolling a =
bit by
making a first post here. =20

Current project status is that a fair bit of the entities and entity
relationships are operational, about 30 tables in all.  This is running =
with
login and full authentication against the users in the employee table.  =
Right
now, any employee has access to all functions of their organization or =
child
organizations.  This is not adequate long term, but is enough to get =
started
and is very easy to supplement.

Because they are written in EJB CMP, they should be portable onto any
database that is supported by the container that Dentaku is deployed on. =
 Not
all of the fields are into the various tables, but they are very easy to =
add
(it actually takes longer to compile than it does to propagate a table =
change
all the way out to the database!)

I'm just now starting to define some of the UI architecture, and am
considering using <stxx/> with an XML reporting core.  See my other post
about this.

Expect to see some code checked in this week.  It's looking great!

Brian