Henri,Some people might even say the whole of Jelly is dormant, and indeed, I, as many other jelly committers have been unable to find cycles to simply fix the most elementary things such as the wrong "how-to-start".
Maven 2 is not using Jelly, that was one of the reason for them to move to maven2, I've been told. Last I tried to bring it back in an m2 project, I failed to find any possibility to include it.
Jelly is used here and there in not so visible projects... that's my blurred estimate. Since jelly is glue oriented, it is typically not so visible and could often be replaced by another glue, e.g. groovy, beanshell, shell-scripting with some greps and xslt... therefore an estimate is real hard to make.
Your approach to only fix jelly-core may be quite good. The solutions you'd find might well apply to the other tag-libs...
Challenges of porting to m2 include: - tag-docs generation (xdoclet under the hood) - probably some distribution targets (maybe not so bad) - unit testing of jelly files - overall web-site generation paul Le 16-sept.-09 à 16:21, Henrib a écrit :
If it is welcome and useful, I'd say it is worth at least a try then. :-)I was only considering the JELLY "core" project though; in theory, if theAPI does not change and new behaviors come with new APIs - or through options/properties - it should not break compatibility.We can even consider the upwards compatibility as a "must have" feature ofthis update if necessary.Trying to gage usefulness, are there heavy-weight active projects usingJelly ? (is Maven 2 using it?)We might also "restrict" the list of sub-projects that would benefit from this to-be branch to a subset, those with a still active community and avoidspending efforts on "dormant" ones. WDYT ?
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