Status, etc.

It's been a couple of years since I last posted to this blog - but there is a reason for that.

First, Manning decided that the sales volume of the MEAP edition of ManifoldCF in Action was too low to justify either an eBook round or a hardcopy release.  They need 200 sales per month minimum to achieve that, and at the time, ManifoldCF itself was an Apache project under incubation - albeit with a fairly large potential community, but not with a sufficiently large early community to meet those numbers.  So I was given the following choices: either just continue with the MEAP edition, or take it over myself without Manning's support.  I chose the former.

Since then, ManifoldCF itself has graduated from the incubator, and has had its 1.0 release as well.  As far as I can tell, it has a decent-sized following in the world at large now.  The book is somewhat dated, as you might expect, but not hopelessly so.  There is a second edition of the book I produced about a year ago which is more up-to-date.  But Manning seems uninterested in it for the moment.

Future editions of the book will need to cover the Java API in more detail, since there is now some interest in the community in using ManifoldCF in that manner.  But first, the team members have to decide exactly what the supported API actually includes.  That will likely take another year or two.

Best Regards,
Karl