Peter, >>I am not sure they have permission to fork or clean-room >>reverse-engineer Sun's JMX source : >> >> >>http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/mx4j/mx4j/src/core/javax/man >>agement/ >> >>I am not sure we have the right to include their compiled JMX API jar in >>our CVS lib directory. >> >>Advice..? >> >> > >Currently it is no different than servlet/xml apis that apache implements as I >don't think any of them are legal yet. I believe Apache was going to be >granted permission to implement a bunch of APIs like servlet, and xml ones. >Not sure it has been actioned yet. However JMX is not part of blessed apis so >it wont be "legal" even then. However TC relies on it so I expect it will be >in future. I would put it in but up to you ;) > > That is kinda my impression too. Should I make an approach to the MX4J team and mention this? One always risks flaming for this, but I feel we should given them a heads up.
The ideal world is that they are dependant on the real JMX API and have their own impl. There could, however, be a compelling reason as to why they have essentially forked the API. - Paul -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
