Richard, Bottom-line: #1 - The code for wsrp4j that we will get will have everything needed for WSRP4J to work in a Tomcat/Servlet Container...Right? #2 - Later the JSR 168 reference impl may/can be extracted into a separate project...Right?
Thanks, dims --- Richard Jacob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > first off all sorry if I break the thread, but I subscibed a few minutes > ago. > Let me try to bring light into the wsrp4j proposal confusion: > We intend to donate two projects: pluto and wsrp4j (formally named charon). > pluto is the JSR168 (Portlet spec) reference implementation, wrsp4j is the > implementation of the WSRP (Web Services for Remote Portlets) > specification. > The proposals have been sent to the list 01/23/03. > See: > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=incubator-general&m=104316106830341&w=2 and > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=incubator-general&m=104328329422013&w=2 > > Initially the intent was to provide them both to the jakarta project. > When talking to Sam about the donation he pointed out that the WS project > might fit better > for WSRP4J. The wiki proposal hasn't been changed yet to reflect this. > We also proposed to rename charon to wsrp4j on the CharonProposal talk page > and since > there were no objections we did it. However we can talk about it to fit the > community desires. > > On the dependencies: > WSRP4J uses the pluto JARs as well as the jakarta-jetspeed-2 project plans > to do. > jakarta-jetspeed-2 is not the ref. impl. as stated in previous mails in > this thread - they depend > on them. > Because of administrative issues pluto needs to come later, and since we > would like to > start the WSRP4J project as early as possible, we planned to donate WSRP4J > with the > pluto JARs included. > Please note: The source code for these JARs will be donated to the pluto > project anyway once > it is accepted. Current plan is to start the pluto project some weeks > later. > We are currently talking to our lawyers to provide an appropriate licence > along with the JARs. > The key point is that we need to "charecterize" the JARs as an > implementation of a non-final > technology (because the JSR168 is not final yet), delivered as-is, for > evaluation, > blahblah. > Since we are no lawyers we have to let them check the conditions first. > We hope to resolve this issue asap. > As you might know jetspeed-2 is already waiting for the JARs. > btw. the Pluto JARs contain already packages named org.apache.pluto.*. This > is because > we intended to start the projects at the same time - but...you know. > Do you see a problem here? > > I hope I was able to clarify some issues. > > Cheers, > Richard. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ===== Davanum Srinivas - http://webservices.apache.org/~dims/ __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. http://search.yahoo.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
