On 7/12/06, peter royal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I have been talking with Dave Irving who is the principal developer
behind AsyncWeb, <http://asyncweb.safehaus.org>, an HTTP engine built
upon MINA <http://directory.apache.org/subprojects/mina/>, on
bringing the project to the ASF.
I've started a proposal at <http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/
AsyncWebProposal>, assistance from others would be appreciated in
helping flesh it out.
I think this would be a good addition to the ASF, as there are many
projects that can benefit from a Java-based non-blocking HTTP server,
and I would also like to see some collaboration with the
HttpComponents project on their HttpNIO efforts.
It almost sounds like this would be a good candidate for a software
grant instead of meriting a full incubation. How large of a community
is around AsyncWeb? From the proposal, it sounds just like one
committer - so as long as the IP clearance paperwork is filed, it
could go right into MINA. See:
http://incubator.apache.org/ip-clearance/index.html
As an aside, I'm also a bit befuddled at why MINA lives in the
Directory project - that just seems a bit odd. =)
That said, I'd be happy to join in on any efforts here (mentor,
committer, user, whatever) - even though I'm a lowly C programmer. As
you may recall, Greg and I have written an async HTTP engine in C
called Serf (http://svn.webdav.org/repos/projects/serf/trunk/) that is
built on top of APR plus Subversion can now use it. So, I've a little
bit (ha!) of experience with writing these types of frameworks. I've
been wondering how the async engine would look like in Java, so this
might be a good chance to get my hands dirty there.
Good luck! -- justin
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