Can you provide the urls where the jars can be downloaded and the url
of the license so we can take a look?
If everything is ok and they are the official reference
implementations they can go under javax.*
On 2/25/06, Wayne Fay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm hoping we can update the "Sun Licensing Journey" and get some
> javax.* apis published in Maven repository without requiring special
> permission from Sun now that Project Glassfish is publishing many of
> them under the CDDL license which very clearly *allows* distribution.
>
> I know there is an effort to introduce "click to agree to license"
> functionality in Maven in the near future, so certain Jars that
> require agreeing to a license etc before being downloaded can still be
> accommodated as downloadable dependencies in Maven. This is a great
> idea and I don't want to detract from it.
>
> I glanced at Glassfish CVS and noticed the following apis immediately:
> javax.activation v1.1
> javax.connector v1.5
> javax.enterprise.deploy
> javax.ejb v2.1
> javax.security.jacc
> javax.jms v1.1
> javax.management.j2ee
> javax.persistence v3.0
> javax.transaction
>
> The Geronimo project is already publishing a few of these, but not
> all. I don't want to duplicate any efforts, so we'd want to limit it
> to the currently-unpublished APIs only -- specifically transaction and
> persistence come to mind but I'm sure some others would go in as well.
>
> Another api I'd like to add would be jdbc-stdext (javax.sql) but I
> can't find it in Glassfish at this point. It might be there and I just
> don't see it, in which case it would be added too.
>
> Since the code is coming from Glassfish, we'd probably want to put it
> in net.java.glassfish (?). Without Sun's explicit permission and
> perhaps even co-operation with the effort, I'd hesitate putting them
> in javax.*. But we could update the javax.* poms to reflect a
> dependency on the net.java.glassfish files.
>
> Assuming we all agree that we can do it legally, I'd be happy to build
> the jars, write the poms, and add to Jira for uploading.
>
> Comments?
>
> Thanks.
> Wayne
>
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