Hi Janne, one of my favorite quotes - "The problem with quick and dirty is that dirty remains long after quick has been forgotten"
+) when do you expect a JSPWiki 3.0 release to hit the public - I think it will be a while ... +) even when JSPWiki 3.0 is available only a few people will use it in production - and they will experience a lot of more problem than this Jasper bug looking at the current refactoring +) Jetty on JDK 1.5 onwards is probably not affected since it does not use Jasper out-of-the-box +) following my line of work with "Wiki On A Stick" - provide a ready to use distribution in addition to a plain war file so a lot of people won't be aware of the problem So I think +) it's a funny and annoying problem +) stay clear of any dirty hack +) comment this issue and the workarounds Cheers, Siegfried Goeschl PS: I'm not an incubator PMC Janne Jalkanen wrote: > Hi ho folks! > > We were preparing for a massive rename from our old jspwiki name space > to the "org.apache.jspwiki.*" -package to prepare for our first Apache > release when we hit a major snag. > > Turns out that Jasper JSP compiler has a bug in it, and it thinks all > classes with their FQN starting with "org.apache.jsp" are it's own, > instead of "org.apache.jsp." (note the trailing period). We are > tracking this issue at > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JSPWIKI-465 > > Now, Jasper has this fixed in the trunk, but since it's used rather > widely in other servlet containers, it means that very few servlet > containers will be able to run JSPWiki for quite a while. > > We've got some fairly hackish ways around this (which cause pain), so > the question to Incubator folks is - can we use a different package > name than "org.apache.jspwiki" for our project, or does it require a > full rename of the project itself? For example, > "org.apache.x.jspwiki" where "x" can range from being a literal "x" to > something else? > > We'd hate to lose the JSPWiki brand (due to four missing characters in > an another project!) because we've existed for over seven years and > have an established name. In addition, figuring out a new name for a > project is always a real pain... > > Any ideas/advice from more experienced people? Any other options than > those listed at JSPWIKI-465? > > /Janne > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
