On Fri, 8 Nov 2002, Henri Yandell wrote:
> Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2002 18:05:08 -0500 (EST) > From: Henri Yandell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: Jakarta Commons Developers List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Jakarta Commons Developers List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: RE: [jdbc] JdbcUtil etc > > > > > On Fri, 8 Nov 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > > For beans, the solution was to call it beanutil, so perhaps we should > > > call it jdbcutil. > > > > > > > Looking at the Sun website, the JDBC acronym is clearly trademarked on its > > webpage so we need another name. > > > > I'll ask the question on General as do we even know if jdbcutil is ok? > > [Beans isn't trademarked, JavaBeans is]. > > Looking at it, and thinking in the usual stop-start way, we have a > jdbc2pool project, so assuming that is okay, then jdbcutils is okay [to > match beanutils]. > I think we'd actually be better off if we didn't include "jdbc" in the name of anything (including the existing jdbc2pool project) because of the trademark. There is precedent for this -- what is now Cactus was originally called "J2EEUnit" and this raised issues. > Hen Craig -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:commons-dev-unsubscribe@;jakarta.apache.org> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:commons-dev-help@;jakarta.apache.org>
