All;
I have been talking to many current Versata clients about how to move
forward to the latest version of Versata (6.3) and how to interface new
technology like AJAX, STRUTS 2.0, JSF, YUI, and other client
frameworks. Since the meta-data of Versata is very rich and the
transformation engine is open (sort-of) you need to understand the
source (XML) and the target. This means either learning the archetype
language to generate new pages or writing a transformaton engine from
scratch. If you choose the latter, Archimedes can persist your
metadata into an SQL database. You would need to extract this
information and use it to create new pages. The key to the entire
exercise would be to have a running framework in place that handles all
of the features Versata provides out-of-the-box like navigation, CRUD,
grids, scrolling, state and connection management, etc. If anyone has
any ideas or favorite frameworks - please share them with the community.

Tyler Band