@Stephen: OGNL is currently ownerless, as Lukasz reported, and he's the only one maintainer on github. Original authors agreed on donating the to the ASF, I suppose to provide OGNL community the support/maintainance that deserves. Someone else didn't agree already on taking in consideration yet another expression language, due to EL and JEXL already on Commons, that's why we proposed BeanUtils/JEXL. I would be the first happy on having it as a proper component.
@Paul: sounds reasonable IMHO, even if the OGNL project looks more like a general purpose expression language, not strictly related to Struts. Personally there are still good reason to propose OGNL here at Commons, even if the Struts path would be acceptable http://people.apache.org/~simonetripodi/ http://www.99soft.org/ On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 7:53 PM, Paul Benedict <pbened...@apache.org> wrote: > 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 >> >> > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
