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As announced, Shadowcats.com will provide hosting for other
modest-sized MaineJug "web apps" projects at this staging site
for the MESDA Virtual Tradeshow (VTS). One element of such hosting
is space within the private (semi-hidden) administration suite you
now see, which has extra resources for managing MaineJug's booths
and aiding its projects.
The VTS (/project/) web app extends and upgrades older
workspace at MaineJug.org, and adds central tools that make MJP work
easier and more rewarding. Besides space in which to describe each
project, it gives a team a way to show off and share working code in
our tag library. Issues of security and R&D philosophy are still in
discussion. See About for details.
Each VTS instance is designed to serve one on-line community, mostly
at the levels of web based information exchange, event promotion, and
networking, each aided by simple interactive page components. It does
this by hosting an open set of booths and shared JSPs that simulate a
non-virtual trade show.
MJP teams can use the VTS Servlet 2.3 web app (and others as needed) to showcase
MJP and JUG initiatives. By centrally dealing with web-based UI and security,
the VTS can make small projects simpler. They often reduce to just a JSP or two,
standard Java libraries, and brief explanations. The News
page includes several examples.
News on this MJP Site
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By policy, each project leader should report monthly to JUG. Your VTS
booth is an easy way to share related news, tags, links, etc. Click
[HELP] in its header to learn how. The process is easy (but it
remains a work in progress). It takes no Java skills to edit text
content, or even HTML skills, just our web form and something to say.
November 2002 news on the VTS as a whole includes new branding for all
booths. The new header reflects the origins of VTS in the MJP
Showcase project (under rightmost graphic), and provides links to
all major MJP-related sites.
Craig's new Sourceforge site will ease problems in sharing MJP code and files.
It has many other nice resources for distributed web app coders, who
can now build and Q/A code at home, post new releases in SourceForge,
then install them here for on-line demos, so people can see and discuss
them even if they are not (yet) members of MJP or MaineJUG.
January 2003 news includes an Exhibit Web App initially meant to post
page fragments of the JugTopics app. It is added below, as this seems a useful
technique, likely to grow in popularity.
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Other MJP Sites
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The MaineJug SourceForge site
is the newest addition, thanks to Craig Doremus. It hosts source code
under CVS, plus news, forums and other support for registered MaineJug
projects and developers. A link to it from the Java beans is in most MJP headers.
The MJP Mailing list
at Yahoo is managed by Jasor Dyer. It maintains in a private list of MJP members, and
archives the email we sometimes exchange on projects, lunches, tools and other technical
archania. To join in (it's low volume), sign up at the link above.
The MJP group(s) home page
lists other projects, history, and policies not visible here. A link to this page is
also found beneath the 'MaineJUG' icon in most MJP headers.
The MaineJug Site hosts
some software from MJP, but as a public site, it does not discuss its own code.
A link to it exists under the left (coffee pot) icon in most MJP headers.
The Exhibit Web App lists visible JSP folders but it
may serve page fragments browsers dislike until wrapped in suitable HTML tags.
Projects must do this wrapping to include any desired page components.
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Stay tuned as this new MJP host site develops, with a more open charter,
a far richer distributed infrastructure, and greater potential to network
in realistic ways with home PC's, other JUG and MJP sites, and other MESDA
groups, member firms, or student chapters.
Please join us, and help to create an open source Java Showcase for
Maine that shows the rest of the high tech world how it's done. |
