Scott Sanders wrote:

>>From: Berin Loritsch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
>>I would like some more information and clarification on the 
>>Jakarta Commons charter and practicalities of placing code 
>>there.  Avalon Excalibur's code is fairly integrated, and is 
>>a testimony to how well the API works.  However, because it 
>>is easier to use the concurrent package synchronization 
>>primitives rather than using the "synchronized" keyword all 
>>the time, I have used them to implement thread-safe pools, 
>>among other things.
>>
>>As far as I can tell there are separate packages for pooling, 
>>synchronization primitives, and other utilities.  My 
>>understanding regarding the charter is that you don't want 
>>cross library dependancies in Commons.  Were I to advocate 
>>moving the utilities in Avalon Excalibur to Jakarta Commons, 
>>how would that work itself out?
>>
>>For instance, the new Pool implementations that I am writing 
>>are based on the new Buffer classes and use the 
>>synchronization primitives.
>>
> 
> Does this mean that the buffer and sync primitives would also be
> submitted to commons?


Sure.  The Buffer would go into the Commons-Collections project
for example.


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