[forge-dev] Forge'in ahead with JBoss Tools

Max Rydahl Andersen max.andersen at redhat.com
Wed Apr 4 19:29:45 EDT 2012


> Well let's just say it is up for future discussion :-)

as said, its not Forge that would provide the runtime functionality you wish for. Forge is a great possible facilitator/helper for this but it really is more in the area of deltaspike/metawidget and future layers on top of that this belongs.

/max
 
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> In one set of meetings I referred to "drag car" and "formula 1" - we need to provide both - getting started and staying the crooked course.  
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> Perhaps that is not all Forge+plug-ins...but it is something I want to keep thinking about.
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> F1 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97rrME9eQHA
> Drag - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDP7Pty8Qnw
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> On Apr 4, 2012, at 10:00 AM, Keith Babo wrote:
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>> On Apr 4, 2012, at 9:53 AM, Max Rydahl Andersen wrote:
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>>>> One thing I was planning on discussing with Lincoln and the Forge roadmap is around the idea of "Forge as a 4GL" - at the moment it feels mostly like a static code generator - which has the problem of schema changes.   But Forge as a 4GL could be more responsive, almost "runtime" code generation.  More like what you get in the Rails world.  :-)
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>>> This is exactly where I hope  Forge will *not* go.
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>> Yep.  I like Forge a lot for getting up and going.  It's quite good at that and there's a clear need for it.  IMHO, Forge as a 4GL would be really tough to pull off and would take users' attention off of what Forge is best at.  
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