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Posted to commits@shale.apache.org by ra...@apache.org on 2006/10/24 22:58:08 UTC

svn commit: r467480 - /shale/framework/trunk/src/site/xdoc/index.xml

Author: rahul
Date: Tue Oct 24 13:58:07 2006
New Revision: 467480

URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=rev&rev=467480
Log:
The all-important "what is shale". Largely a cut and paste from mailing list discussions, AC'06 abstracts etc.
SHALE-306

Modified:
    shale/framework/trunk/src/site/xdoc/index.xml

Modified: shale/framework/trunk/src/site/xdoc/index.xml
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/shale/framework/trunk/src/site/xdoc/index.xml?view=diff&rev=467480&r1=467479&r2=467480
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--- shale/framework/trunk/src/site/xdoc/index.xml (original)
+++ shale/framework/trunk/src/site/xdoc/index.xml Tue Oct 24 13:58:07 2006
@@ -22,6 +22,21 @@
 
   <body>
 
+    <a name="whatis"/>
+    <section name="Shale Framework">
+
+      <p>Shale is a modern web application framework, fundamentally based on
+      JavaServer Faces.  Architecturally, Shale is a set of loosely coupled services
+      (and service options) that can be combined as needed to meet particular
+      application requirements.  Shale provides additional functionality such as
+      application event callbacks, dialogs with conversation-scoped state, a view
+      technology called Clay, annotation-based functionality to reduce
+      configuration requirements and support for remoting.  In addition, Shale
+      provides integration links for other frameworks and framework components, to
+      ease development when combinations of technologies are required.</p>
+
+    </section>
+
     <a name="features"/>
     <section name="Shale Features">