Hunsberger, Peter wrote:
Umm, I don't really see a pattern here. From everything I've seen the
communities involved with Spring and Geronimo have little in common with
the Avalon/Excalibur communities. (Let me qualify that by saying I
haven't looked that closely.) More-over, they both have the advantage of
being able to look at past history and learn from it.
I need a *record* of stability, the attitude is not enough, I'm sorry.
History should teach people not to repeat the same mistakes again... but hey, what do I know, I've only been around here for 7years.
Many people have learned many things both technically and community wise
in the past 7 years. If it is really this bad why aren't we writing our
own XML parsers and XSLT engines?
Because they have been around forever *AND* they don't change their contracts overnight. Example: xalan2 broke 25% of the gump build last night, it was solved after a few hours.
After all they are as critical to Cocoon as the containers. Why not take it all the way and write our own JVM?
FYI, I spent the last day making sure that gump runs against Kaffe and GNU classpath to see how far away we are in that regard.
-- Stefano.
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