Jim Jagielski wrote:
On Jul 12, 2006, at 11:19 AM, Justin Erenkrantz wrote:
On 7/12/06, peter royal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I have been talking with Dave Irving who is the principal developer
behind AsyncWeb, <http://asyncweb.safehaus.org>, an HTTP engine built
upon MINA <http://directory.apache.org/subprojects/mina/>, on
bringing the project to the ASF.
I've started a proposal at <http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/
AsyncWebProposal>, assistance from others would be appreciated in
helping flesh it out.
I think this would be a good addition to the ASF, as there are many
projects that can benefit from a Java-based non-blocking HTTP server,
and I would also like to see some collaboration with the
HttpComponents project on their HttpNIO efforts.
It almost sounds like this would be a good candidate for a software
grant instead of meriting a full incubation. How large of a community
is around AsyncWeb? From the proposal, it sounds just like one
committer - so as long as the IP clearance paperwork is filed, it
could go right into MINA. See:
http://incubator.apache.org/ip-clearance/index.html
I know that a few ApacheDS guys have also done some
work on it as well.
Right it's mostly Dave Irving of course, Trustin Lee, Dan Diephouse, and
myself on it. So there is community around it but it overlaps.
As an aside, I'm also a bit befuddled at why MINA lives in the
Directory project - that just seems a bit odd. =)
MINA is expected to propose a move to TLP soon... MINA
started off as a framework for ApacheDS and has grown into
its own very cool codebase.
MINA had an interesting history. It's basically a combination of
Trustin's older Netty2 and concepts we were working on here at Directory
when experimenting with SEDA and the notion of protocol codecs.
ApacheDS is a bit of a misnomer since it supports more than just LDAP
with a bunch of plugable protocols like Kerberos and DNS that all back
their data within the LDAP directory. As you can see we quickly needed
a framework that could support all these needs.
Alex
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