Re: [Proposal] Apache Droids as subproject of HttpComponents (was Re: Apache Droids using Norbert)

[Thorsten Scherler <th...@apache.org>]

On Wed, 2008-08-27 at 13:32 +0200, Thorsten Scherler wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 13:35 +0100, Thorsten Scherler wrote:
> > On Sat, 2008-02-23 at 09:16 +0100, Roland Weber wrote:
> > > Hi Thorsten,
> > > 
> > > > Is there are still interest to host Droids and sponsor it in incubation
> > > > as mentioned in [2]?
> > > 
> > > Definitely :-) Meanwhile, we have created a charter [a] and Droids fits
> > > the "build upon and extend" clause. We will expect it to work well with
> > > HttpClient 4 eventually, but that doesn't have to be exclusive.
> ...
> > 
> > I guess shortly I will finish the docu and a simple example (that I
> > develop for the documentation) and we can then decide how we will
> > procedure.
> 
> I consider the current development stand of Apache Droids as stable
> after enhancing the multi-thread feature and finishing the default
> implementation. The default droid and worker is a simple crawler that
> scraps a webpage and saves the resources to disk. 
> 
> It is highly extensible and in my current work project I am using 5
> different droids that are running very smooth. This droids are extending
> the default implementation and are adding business specific logic.
> 
> Some of this droids are connecting to another web site to get some data
> and invoke then the parsing of this data to generate an internal
> representation of them and send them to an Apache Solr server. Another
> droids simply crawls a file system to edit specific files with the
> result of a database query. 
> 
> I like to start the move to the incubator with Droids with the
> HttpComponents project sponsoring it.

Here are some links:
docu: http://people.apache.org/~thorsten/droids/
svn: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/labs/droids/trunk

salu2

> 
> WDYT?
> 
> salu2
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Thorsten Scherler                                 thorsten.at.apache.org
Open Source Java                      consulting, training and solutions


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