Sorry that Oracle has missed a golden opportunity, but I have followed PDS for some time and for some reason I believe that now you are free of PDS or should I say Oracle. Red Dwarf can become just as you say, “even more well known”.

I hope you don’t mine if I make a request and suggestion.

These are great days for the opportunist in backend code as the access to front end applications continues to get cheaper and stronger. And the need for new developers expands. But the biggest problem is the new developer has access to many solutions but is always hitting major roadblocks in both learning and using the solutions. If Red Dwarf is going to become a GIANT it will need the most important aspect of the end users need…

Instruction

Yep that’s it, simple and clear instruction. I am developing under Unity as they got it right with easy import of assets from 3D apps and now all that is needed is a solid easy to use backend solution.

Now I am sure you are thinking ok sure, can it make money. I think it can.

If you divide the Open source code the PDS core and continue its development as the core apart from Red Dwarf and you make the Red Dwarf solution a tier design based on something like 0 to 20 clients free so developers can have a good starting point to grow from and 20 to 100, 100 to 500, 500 to 1000 you get the idea. And make the cost reasonable to keep pace with the growth of the your customers.

And you add additional functionality as plugins to purchase under the same system so as to be able to expand and use other components like Glassfish or mysql and other possibility’s.

And most importantly have good and easy to understand tutorials on how to setup and use Red Dwarf you will have a true success.

Michael Trottier

I’ve recently become aware of this whole buyout travesty, and have educated myself regarding your team’s efforts. I found your linkedin page, which had a link to here.

The project offers such incredible potential for new possibilities in future gaming efforts. Do you think that Oracle failed to fully understand the significance of the project?

It’s also a travesty to see that the entire darkstar team is now unemployed. Having a sound background in business, I would love to run a few ideas by you regarding the direction that you may want to take your professional efforts going forth.

Please do contact me via e-mail, dave at airpong dot net, ideally including some form instant messaging contact information. I’d really like to run a few exciting ideas by you.

My pom.xml looks like this (as mentioned in the above post)
http://pastebin.com/fd037ca

Any help would be greatly appreciated as I’m stuck on this part.

The hands on lab given at JavaOne this year may be of interest to you: http://projectdarkstar.com/handsonlab/
Also note that the website is currently undergoing some work that should help in the organization of some of the documentation. This should be rolled out pretty soon. Also, I would recommend the Project Darkstar forums as a very good resource for any questions you might have.

Hope this helps.

still, i had a few problems with the article,
one of them has a hint in the previous respond,
the final pom.xml of this example is some kind of a mystery, at least for me which most of these stuff are new, i have done some reading about maven to understand whats going in there,
for these who want the shortcut, here is the final result of the pom.xml:

http://pastebin.com/fd037ca