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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.
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)
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 the upcoming Ajax Experience conference 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
