Re: Niels IceCap 5250

[Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen <ravn@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Nathan Andelin skrev:
> > From: Aaron Bartell
> > Should a sourceforge project be created for stuff like  this?
> >     
>
> I don't have much experience with open-source repositories, or open-source development.  But what kind of structure would encourage and facilitate contributions (other than lip service) from others to the project?
>
> It seems that a number of open-source projects never reach their potential because only one programmer is contributing all the code.  And how fair is that?
>
> Wouldn't it be better to host source code, plus development, plus run-time environments under an IBM i server?  To create some community unity?
>   

I am interested in this from a completely different angle, as I have 
found there is a missing piece for creating Java components related to 
AS/400, namely routines hooking the logging frameworks like log4j into 
the AS/400 infra structure, and that this is something that would 
benefit most of us.

Get an error?  Put an entry in the appropriate message queue, drop a 
line in the job log, send a mail with the AS/400 program I cannot recall 
right now the name of, etc.  All configured outside the component 
itself.  It is a very powerful concept.

I did quite some experiments to see what worked best for us, and the 
combination of a long term log file with non-debug information, and 
debug messages printed to the console (wrapped suitable to fit within 
132 characters) have been pretty effective.

Is this something that would interest others than me?