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Date: Sun, 1 Mar 2009 11:23:04 -0800
Message-ID: <6e1d61f50903011123y66993a11n6c439125659f19e8@mail.gmail.com>
Subject: Re: gauging sandbox interest - openmodels
From: Mark Fortner <phidias51@gmail.com>
To: Commons Developers List <dev@commons.apache.org>
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Hi Matt,
I like the idea; however, it might make more sense to simply have domain
objects (and in the case of dbutils perhaps a small derby database) in each
project as necessary. This can be used to both improve the unit tests and
provide working examples of the code.

Mark

On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 9:15 AM, Matt Benson <gudnabrsam@yahoo.com> wrote:

>
> For awhile I've had an itch that it would be nice to have a project whose
> purpose is to provide small, realistic domain models for consumption
> primarily by tests of library-type code (if the domain models are actually
> usable/extensible for real work, so much the better).  It seems to me that
> particularly at Commons it could be beneficial for tests/examples of various
> components to reference common object models, giving potential users a
> better point of reference to see how various components might be used with
> their own models.  Is there any interest in having such a project in
> Commons; do we feel this would be too large and not precisely the mission of
> Commons; are there other opinions?
>
> Thanks,
> Matt
>
>
>
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