[seam-dev] Module reviews

[Pete Muir]

On 12 Jun 2010, at 00:02, Dan Allen wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 7:00 PM, Dan Allen <dan.j.allen at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 1:57 PM, Jason Porter <lightguard.jp at gmail.com> wrote:
> In the meeting on IRC yesterday we spoke at length about the CRUD
> framework, I don't know if that discussion was written down anywhere
> or put up on the wiki.  I know Dan Allen pretty much lead the
> conversation.
> 
> Primarily, my message was that we had a lot of ideas floating around and consolidation was needed, followed by action ;) We mostly talked about:
> 
> 1. Not coupling it with UI controllers (that's an orthogonal concern)

Not 100% sure what you mean by this, can you elaborate.

> 2. Home is a word which few people really get, we should pick something more applicable like EntityFacade or EntityCRUD

Not sure I like either of those. Let's keep thinking on this one.

> 3. The query framework should provide an API which is technology agnostic, with implementations for JPA and others (room for JDO, nosql, REST)

Again, please elaborate.

> 
> 4. We proposed renaming it to the Seam data framework, since the core features revolve around reading and writing entities/resources to persistence storage (i.e., data)
> The UI controllers would likely be more suitable in the UI modules, such as faces and wicket

I would prefer Seam CRUD framework, I think it's a bit more obvious still.