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The XAP project has been retired.
Advice of the Mentors is that there is no activity, and it should likely be suspended.
The project reports no activity.
XAP appears to have become essentially dead back in March or April. The Incubator PMC will investigate dormant status for it.
XAP has been almost entirely inactive for at least the last 4 months. A discussion about its status was attempted, and did not elicit much of a response. The Incubator PMC will look to vote it into a dormant status.
Failed to report.
XAP is an XML-based declarative framework for creating Ajax applications. Community * There was some movement to make a few more people committers who have been filing numerous bugs and bug fixes, we need to follow up on that. * Lack of activity on the mailing lists is a problem; we will have to do better there. Software * I (James M) was onsite at a real customer creating a production deployment. Ran into some bugs and performance issues, especially in IE6, which have been fixed and rolled into the XAP codebase. In particular data centric widgets like tables and comboBoxes should perform better, application startup time is greatly reduced and some stability issues with table were addressed. (No more crashing) * We are starting the process of doing another release that incorporates these changes. Issues before graduation * Aforementioned community issues as well as community diversity.
No report. Part of the "Projects in Trouble" e-mail to discuss future status.
Description - XAP is a client side declarative Ajax framework for building and deploying rich internet applications Date of entry - June, 2006 The top three items to resolve in last report have seen very good progress: Dojo 0.9 migration - XAP is currently using Dojo 0.4 as the default Ajax toolkit. Dojo 0.9 is a complete rewriet of Dojo. Though it is not compatible with Dojo 0.4, Dojo 0.9 seems to have fixed many problems of Dojo and is likely to become a solid foundation for future Ajax development. XAP developers are investigating whether/when/how to migrate to Dojo 0.9. Release - XAP has made one release within the community so far (XAP 0.3 release on March 2007); Growth of community - XAP community is growing, we see more and more contributions in many forms from people other than the initial committers: feedback on the mailing lists, documentation and code patches... The commuity has voted to add a new committer. Community aspects: Contributions from various non-committers continued in areas such as bug reports, code patches, and discussions; Vote of a new committer passed Coach Wei gave a talk on Apache XAP and Declarative Ajax at AjaxWorld Conference in march 2007 at NYC; We have reviewed the web site tracking and added mechanism to collect XAP download statistics. jQuery integration is done. XAP customers can leverage jQuery as well - plugin available both from jQuery website and XAP website( http://jquery.com/plugins/project/xModify). Code aspects: Significant work went into xModify - now we have a 3KB engine (leverages jQuery) for declaratively "ajaxify" HTML web applications. Customers can get "Ajax" result without writing a single line of Javascript, by using the 3KB "xModify with jQuery" module. Web site has been updated ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
XAP is an XML-based Ajax application framework that supports application development via declaritive XML pages backed by Javascript event handlers. Incubating since: Summer 2006 Code/Release Status: *The first release was performed shortly after the last board report. Recent Actvity: *Dojo widget libray upgraded to 0.4 *Changed the way certain layout managers function to work better together and cover more cases. *Various window behavior improvements and bug fixes, better styling of titlebar, icons, etc. *Better support for imbedding HTML in XML and vice-versa. *Various misc. widget improvments - more control over table styling, support for low-level mouse events (mouse move, mouse over, etc), cursor support, background image support, etc. To Resolve Before Graduation: *More diverse community. *More community discussion on various development issues. *More complex use cases / sample applications Community Issues: *Recently voted to add 2 new committers. (Vote results not yet tallied)
iPMC Reviewers: jerenkrantz, yoavs, jukka, twl, noel Since our last report a number of people have begun contributing bug reports and fixes through JIRA, including some huge improvements to the widget tests that are now very robust. (Thank you Trevor) Hopefully some of these contributors will be converted to committers in short order. XAP is in the midst of getting out a first release - most issues have been resolved (file headers, etc), still working through a couple things like NOTICE file contents. The Wiki has been updated with more information for both developers and users. (But probably needs updating again) Technical changes include many bug fixes to individual widgets, replacement of the logging mechanism with a log4j-based approach (feedback on how close this is to log4j would be appreciated, the code is in xap/log/Logger.js), a cleaned up launch mechanism, conversion of config file from XML to JSON format, some performance improvements, etc. Future plans: More bug fixes, better samples and examples, constant code cleanup and maintenance, performance improvements. (Initial loading, memory use) Beyond that need to discuss as release winds down. iPMC Comments: * noel: As Justin has repeatedly told a number of projects, please follow the report template, e.g., "What is XAP?" ----
XAP is a declarative framework for building, deploying and maintaining
Ajax-based rich internet applications with the goal of dramatically
simplifying Ajax application development. XAP entered incubation in
May 2006.
Top three items to resolve before graduation:
* Bring the codebase to a level that contributors can make
contributions without significant pain;
* Create a XAP incubating release with proper packaging and quality
* Engage a higher level of community activity and contribution
Community
* Various discussions on the XAP dev list on technical issues such
as application initialization and DOM model;
* Attended ApacheCon and gave a lightening talk on XAP
* A session called "Introduction to XAP" was presented at AjaxWorld
Conference and Ajax Experience conference at Boston
* Various third party expressed interest in learning more about XAP,
but complained that not easy to get infomation and not easy to
figure out what XAP code does.
Code
* Achieved milestone 3: added more widgets and streamlined
initialization
* Various bug submission and JS unit tests submitted by Trevor Oldak
* Update demo applications with improved performance
* Working towards the next milestone: more widgets and some appealing
demos to attract more developers
XAP made good progress since June 2006 status report. The main activities and results are: * Discussed and gathered community feedback from both XAP dev list as well as general incubator dev list about IRC meetings. As a result, decided not to pursue general IRC activites unless specific requirements are met (The content of IRC is to be limited to educational purpose only; some committers are willing to volunteer to provide education and orientation and Q&A); * Continues to update the project with bug fixes, samples, web site fixes, etc; * Discussed at the XAP dev email list and made decisions to focus more on the Dojo toolkit; * Discussed at XAP dev email list and made decision about Javascript namespace and scoping, etc.