[errai-dev] Improving demos and getting started experience

Hi everyone, We've started an effort to improve our demos in Errai 3. More specifically we want to - have a top level demo directory containing all demos - make every demo a standalone project - add documentation and getting started guides - make sure all demos follow the JDF quickstart guidelines We currently have 17 different demos and 5 archetypes in Errai! Needless to say that this is a huge maintenance burden, especially when adding the above requirements. So, I suggest that we go through these demos and have a quorum on their individual destinies ;). I expect that most of them will survive, but there are definitely some redundancies. We can start in tomorrows Errai hangout. Here's the list of our demos and features they represent: - AsyncDemo: MessageBuilder, conversational messages, simple client-server interactions using MessageCallbacks - StressTest: MessageBuilder, UiBinder, performanc/load testing of Errai Bus. - ClientService: MessageBuilder, broadcast messages - HelloWorld: MessageBuilder, conversational messages - QueryService: RPC using MessageBuilder - RpcDemo: RPC using Caller<T> - Serialization: MessageBuilder, conversational messages, Complex type serialization (@Portable types) - StockDemo: MessageBuilder, broadcast and conversational messages - CDI mobile demo: CDI events, broadcasts, Qualifiers, JSNI - MVP demo: MVP pattern using the client-side bean manager - Stock Demo: CDI events, JSNI interaction with external JS libraries (charting) - CDI Stress Test: Performance/Load testing using CDI events - TagCloud: CDI broadcasts and conversational events. JSNI interacting with jQuery. - Rest Demo: Errai JAXRS support - JPA demo basic: Errai JPA basic CRUD demo - Todo List: Errai UI, Data Binding, client-side CDI, JPA - Grocery List: CDI, JPA, UI, Data Binding, soon Data Sync, Validation, Twitter Bootstrap, Maps, GeoFencing,... Archetypes: - cdi-quickstart: simple hello world using CDI events - bus-quickstart: simple hello world using MessageBuilder - jaxrs-quickstart: simple CRUD demo using Caller<T> and JAX-RS endpoints - kitchensink: CRUD app based on famous JBoss kitchensink, Errai RPC, bean validation, CDI events - kitchensink-cordova: same as above but mobile enabled (and support for taking picture) Cheers, Christian