Noel, this is just for sources of javax.* NOT implementations. One location for a servlet-api.jar, jaxrpc.jar, saaj.jar, xml-apis.jar.
-- dims On 12/30/05, Noel J. Bergman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alan D. Cabrera wrote: > > > There has been some discussion on creating a Java specs project > > which would hold all the specs jars from the various JSRs as well > > as other standards, e.g. CORBA. Often, there are many duplicate > > "copies" of the source code for the same JSR floating around in > > different Apache projects. It would be a great idea to move them > > all into one project. This idea, so far, has been met with much > > enthusiasm. > > What exactly does this mean? That the source for Tomcat, JackRabbit, > Geronimo, WS, Directory and all of the others will be moved to one place? > > Geir says: > > "The point of this was that this is shared code as well as code that > causes collisions. Apache Geronimo had to implement this stuff for > J2EE, but it's a dupe of what we find elsewhere, like in tomcat and > in web-services land. > > I agree that this is a problem, but turning Geronimo into something worse > than Jakarta ever was, or turning Jakarta back into its old self is not a > solution. Getting projects to stop rolling their own, and to collaborate > with the other projects is one solution. For example, if those Geronimo > built artifacts are dupes, then why were they built instead of re-used? And > we have similar situations all over the ASF. > > Geronimo was never intended to build everything. It was intended to build > the infrastructure for pulling together all of the parts from around the ASF > and elswhere as necessary that were required to build a J2EE server. > > If you want to have an ontological map of where each JSR is implemented > around the ASF, for that I would be +1. We've discussed that idea before. > If we want to make sure that these jars can be separately accessed, rather > than just in a big release package, +1 of course. If we want a common > distribution repository for the binaries, OK. > > But to have a single uber-umbrella for every JSR implementation? > > --- Noel > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- Davanum Srinivas : http://wso2.com/blogs/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
