Open-source anyone??

Question

I recently decided to start an open-source project JAquarist, which Im sure not too many of you would find great interest in, despite some rather interesting ideas and techniques Ill be employing in the application. Several months ago I attempted an application framework, a small project that I brushed to the side until
more important things were taken care of, JAVA certification being just one of them.... I decided to complete this project, the Framework that is, in the hopes it would make my real task at hand JAquarist project a bit easier to develop, maintain, extend, etc. The development of this framework has gone quite well to this point, some areas admittedly quick fix hacks, my inexperience probably showing through its design, but its almost completed to the requirements for my JAquarist project.The point is that this framework could be a useful tool, or a quality framework if more time, though and effort was given to its overall design and implementation, especially by those more experienced than myself. I hate to admit there is huge room for improvement in many areas, I still have much to learn!!
I will finish this framework within two weeks and then let it loose. Anyone interested in further developing this framework please contact me at [email protected]

Answer 1

My project is hosted at sourceforge, that is JAquarist which will be built using the framework Im currently working on, which should be a project of its own. Its an application-framework which attempts to many things. Key features, are dynamic pluggable behavior through a component interface. This interface defines such things as the components available guis, top level menu, menu-items, dependencies(for inter component communication/re-usability), as well as a few other odds and ends. Classes implementing the component interface can be added/removed via xml configuration, without recompile. Menus are dynamically created and linked to a "components" defined guis, some of which wil be reusable in other components. Logging, although very much a quick hack at tis point, is also provided, an application context for an application to easily access key directories/files under an install directory, lastly jdbc support, which is coming along well I think. You can turn jdbc on/off and specify connection parameters in xml config, and much of the work such as data binding is handled automatically. In addtion component depenency checking, jdbc dependency checking as well. To provide one example, there is a JdbcComponent interface. initialization wil compare its required tables to tables existing in an rdbms, if not found initialization will call upon the components getCreateScript() returning sql create statement, which will then be used to create the table.