[GO-ESSP] Setting up a GO-ESSP Portal re-use repository

[Roland Schweitzer]

Ag,

What a great idea.  I think the register should include information 
about the implementation technology and the dependencies (both 
dependencies for the implementation and for external support pieces).  
For example, a system might be implemented in PHP and require a mySQL 
backend and have only been tested using an Apache server.  Or say it 
might be implemented in Java as a servlet using Velocity and Struts and 
require Java 1.5 or greater and Tomcat 5 or greater.  If I were browsing 
the registry this information would tell me a lot about how difficult I 
think it might be to use the component based on what technology I'm 
already using in my shop.

This sort of information is a little bit more difficult to encode in 
because there are some nuances.  Something tested on Tomcat might well 
run just fine in other servlet containers.  Just having the raw 
information would be a good start, but we could add some subtlety by 
including qualifiers like "required", "recommended" or "tested with".

Roland