Re: top five

Hi,

My top five:
  1. a web widget library
  2. a data access/persistence layer which supports much more
     than relational databases
  3. a security system (authz+authen)
  4. a reporting system (web-based and e-mailed reports)
  5. a network mgmt system based on P5EE

Stephen

At 09:52 AM 11/8/2001 +1100, brian moseley wrote:
>
>if you're like me, you're thinking: "i might like to help,
>but i'm not sure what would be most useful or where my time
>would be well spent at this point."
>
>suggestion: everybody make a top five list of
>projects/components/apis that you'd like to see this group
>make happen. here's mine:
>
>1) a good unified mail client api (single namespace,
>consistent docs and naming), likely incorporating
>MIME-tools, Mail::Folder, Mail::Send, etc, with imap, pop3
>and smtp support, as well as local storage and retrieval
>(mbox, maildir, sendmail, etc); possibly also including an
>interface for filter rule construction, supporting sieve,
>procmail, etc.
>
>2) a naming and directory api that lets me use the same
>interface to access objects stored in memory, in an ldap
>directory, on a soap server, on a webdav server, distributed
>with corba, or in a file on the local filesystem; or any
>combination thereof
>
>3) a uniform authen/authz api that knows about users and
>groups and domains, handles credential types such as
>username/password and client cert, supports multiple
>password hashing/encryption schemes, and allows pluggable
>data sources, possibly different for authen and authz.
>
>4) dare i say it: web application specifications (as an
>author of a p5ee-enabled web application, i can expect my
>environment to provide services x, y and z)
>
>5) a comprehensive, high level, easy to use locale api that
>works for all supported versions of perl. not a random
>assortment of I18N:: modules, but a consistent oo api that
>is directly supported by all higher level p5ee apis and
>components.
>
>
>

• top five by brian moseley
• JNDI (was: top five) by Chris Winters
• Re: JNDI (was: top five) by Gerald Richter
• Re: JNDI (was: top five) by Gunther Birznieks
• Re: JNDI (was: top five) by brian moseley
• Re: top five by Stephen Adkins
• Re: top five by John Napiorkowski
• Re: top five by Stephen Adkins
• Re: top five by brian moseley