Struts 2 is a big consumer of OGNL. The Struts community already consumed XWork's IP and now own it. Aren't both of those projects from OpenSymphony? If so, I would say it should go over to Struts.
On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 12:50 PM, Stephen Colebourne <scolebou...@joda.org>wrote: > Based on what I know of OGNL, it is/was reasonably well used. Trying > to merge it into another project doesn't help those existing users. > > The question is what are the author(s) of OGNL looking for? A home for > maintainance? The Apache brand? To reinvigorate it? The latter fits > with a merger into other projects. The former should make commons ask > if it wants to become a home for maintainance mode (not necessarily a > bad thing). > > I'm certainly arguing against a straight push into BeanUtils or JEXL. > > Stephen > > > On 1 March 2011 17:48, Simone Tripodi <simonetrip...@apache.org> wrote: > > Hi Henri, > > it would be fine for me, I initially suggested BeanUtils because > > already support a similar feature[1], but JEXL2 would work as well. > > Thanks for your feedbacks, looking forward to collect enough thoughts > > to call for a vote :) > > Simo > > > > http://people.apache.org/~simonetripodi/ > > http://www.99soft.org/ > > > > > > > > On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 6:37 PM, henrib <hen...@apache.org> wrote: > >> Howdy; > >> I looked at OGNL a while ago and can't fully remember why I ended up > using > >> JEXL (probably because it seemed simpler). Anyway, OGNL seems very > powerful > >> and expressive. > >> What about trying to merge OGNL & JEXL2 (instead of BeanUtils)? I'm > pretty > >> sure the core JEXL2 features (introspector - method /static / ctor > calls, > >> arithmetic) could be leveraged easily. The main differences would be in > the > >> upper parts I guess (syntax, constructs). > >> It probably could help define a better scripting engine and language in > the > >> future rather than overlapping ones. > >> Thoughts ? > >> Henrib > >> > >> -- > >> View this message in context: > http://apache-commons.680414.n4.nabble.com/OGNL-as-a-part-of-Commons-tp3085026p3330241.html > >> Sent from the Commons - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > >> > >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > >> > >> > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > >
