Dash (was: Re: standard actions...)

[jon * <jo...@clearink.com>]

> Kevin Burton sezs...
> 
>> Sun has done an excellent job with the Servlet API but it
>> seems like every web project continually re-invents the wheel.  Things
>> like a SQL user database with preferences and other types of SQL
>> applications are not defined.  Everytime someone wants to write a web
>> app the have to do the framework code as well.

That is one reason why I came up with the Dash framework...

<http://www.working-dogs.com/dash/>

It has all the AccessControlList/User/Permission/Roles code already in
there. On top of it, all the database stuff has been abstracted out into
"Peer" objects which makes it really easy to customize for different
database schemes. We also have all the session handling code and a nice
database connection pool in there as well.

It is a cool framework because it is totally flexible. We rely on gratuitous
use of Class.forName(), you can extend any part of it without having to
modify the core code.

Kevin, I would love to see you use this framework for JetSpeed.

-jon