Thanks for bringing this up. I made the copy for Geronimo as part of
a bigger effort[7] to integrate TC6 with Geronimo 2.0 The underlying
motivation was to have the spec jars available in a m2 repo, so I
followed a precedent I noticed for the servlet 2.5 spec[8].
Since that time the tomcat jars are now being published to tomcat's
maven repo[9]. I'm certainly not in favor of duplicating effort so I
think Geronimo should consider using the jars in the tomcat repo now
and I will approach the Geronimo team with that idea. However, there
have recently been concerns raised in Geronimo about importing from
"non-standard" (sorry I can't think of a better word) maven repos,
and there was also an issue with copyrights in certain schemas in the
TC6 tree (which have been replaced in Geronimo's spec jars). So I'm
unsure how the discussion will turn out.
Best wishes,
Paul
[7] http://www.mail-archive.com/dev@geronimo.apache.org/msg37311.html
[8] https://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=rev&revision=417806
[9] http://tomcat.apache.org/dev/dist/m2-repository/
On Apr 4, 2007, at 8:11 PM, Niall Pemberton wrote:
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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