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Subject: Re: Cayenne marketing (was: Fwd: Second article appeared today)
From: Andrus Adamchik <andrus@objectstyle.org>
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On Nov 3, 2011, at 3:35 PM, Christian Grobmeier wrote:
>=20
> A more concrete proposal:
> - utilize Twitter for interesting changes, builds anything which is to
> small to blog but shows activity on Cayenne

I am trying to use my personal Twitter exclusively for Cayenne: =
http://twitter.com/#!/andrus_a  Need to promote it more as well (add it =
to my email sig or something?). But maybe creating a project-controlled =
twitter is better on the long run.


> I am willing to help in this area and write blog posts. Either on my
> blog (which has up to 5000 unique visitors a month) or on the asf blog
> or both.  But I need a bit guidances from the active developers, to
> spot interesting changes in time and to understand them quickly. A
> review of the posts before publishing would also not be so bad :-)


> - utilize Apache Blog for news
>=20
> In addition I would like to start some kind of "Cayenne series" on my
> blog. Lets say 1 medium sized article all two weeks. For this I need
> some input about current changes or things of interest. Or even proof
> reading :-) I can also agree to co-writers and would accept complete
> articles from others.

Awesome! I think we have some interesting things to show right away. =
E.g. this thing about String IDs discussed in the parallel thread. In =
combination with map nature of DataObjects it allows to do some cool =
stuff. We can talk about using String IDs to refer to objects; building =
persistent "aspects" and attaching lifecycle to them with annotations; =
what can be done with such aspects; etc. All of this is still rather new =
and patterns and best practices are still being discovered (e.g. you =
can't do regular joins across aspect relationships, so how do you build =
your searches, etc.).=20

I am in love with this whole aspect stuff, as I am doing lots of =
commercial CMS programming based on Cayenne and relational DBs. But CMS =
systems require features more often associated with JCR (Jackrabbit) =
technology, rather than ORM. The above if done right allows to have the =
best of both ORM and JCR worlds.

Another area is DI configuration. We have a bunch of extension points =
now, so how do we take advantage of them to tune an application.

Andrus