OK theres no interest in Commons here but, thinking about it, location is minor - the real issue is about having a separatly released artifact that other projects can depend on - which Tomcat could do with EL. Any chance of a separate EL release (with a jar in the maven repo)?
I noticed today that Geronimo copied the Tomcat 6 EL implementation [3] and now appear to be maintaing it independantly[4][5] - they have also published it as a separate artifact[6] in the maven repo. Seems a shame to duplicate and waste effort in this way - and I can think of quite a few projects that could benefit by plugging in the standard EL. Niall [3] http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=rev&revision=481390 [4] http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=rev&revision=514550 [5] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GERONIMO-2930 [6] http://tinyurl.com/2g8oek On 2/8/07, Niall Pemberton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Following a discussion on Commons Dev[1] about using the independent EL implementation associated with the JSP 2.1 spec I wondered if there is any interest in moving what Tomcat has over to Jakarta Commons? The motivation for all of this is it would IMO be extremely useful for projects to be able to use/depend on an in dependant EL project/component. I realize that this is probably a year too late[2] and that the Tomcat team decided to "in house" EL development and ditch Commons EL because of problems that Commons components can have getting releases out of the door. I would say that I believe we have improved on this in the last year - but probably the best option would be to open up Commons to Tomcat devs (my guess there is already some overlap already?) so that you would have no issues committing and releasing. I would also be prepared to to assist with or RM any EL releases. If this is of interest I'd be happy to propose bringing in both the code and developers to Jakarta Commons. Niall [1] http://tinyurl.com/yqpbnz [2] http://tinyurl.com/32osfx
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