On Mon, 7 May 2001, GOMEZ Henri wrote:
> The title of the thread was about "Collaborative Development" :!
>
> The objective of the new repositories are to help share some code
> between all the Tomcats.
>
> While working on using ajp12/ajp13 java code from Tomcat 3.3 CVS,
> I quickly realize the need for a common toolbox handling
> http related objects (Mimes, Cookies, MessageBytes...)
>
> We could imagine at least three subprojects :
>
> - jakarta-tomcat-toolbox
>
> An general toolbox, which defines and handle all sorts of
> http related projects, like cookies, mimes, request/response.
> May be code, interface, abstract (and so on)
>
> - jakarta-tomcat-connectors
>
> A kind of ORB based on HTTP with both native code (to link
> with majors WebServers) and java code (interfaces to be implemented
> in tomcats). This sub-project will use the jakarta-tomcat-toolbox
>
> - jakarta-tomcat-jasper
>
> the JSP implementation (which could also use jakarta-tomcat-toolbox).
>
There seems to be consensus growing around these three names. Does that
meet with everyone's agreement? If so, I can create the new repositories
and set up the permissions stuff later today.
Craig
PS: Just a note on "toolbox" -- if the stuff that might go here is
independent of Tomcat itself, you might think about making it a Commons
package instead of a Tomcat package. You'll find several other useful
goodies already there.
