Last year at JavaOne, Ed Burns (JSF 1.2 spec lead), Matthias Unverzagt, and I talked about the OurFaces project (https://ourfaces.dev.java.net/) and how we wanted it to be a standard repository for high-quality open-source JSF components. Of course, time is always scarce, so the project hasn't progressed quite as we would have liked. Matthias, the project's leader, did, however make a lot of progress organizing the project so that new commiters could easily add components. (You can read Ed's blog entry about this at: http://weblogs.java.net/blog/edburns/archive/2004/08/lets_learn_abou.html).
Since the MyFaces component work, in contrast, is quite vibrant, I think it would make sense to take the OurFaces concepts and transform the MyFaces components subproject into sort of a central repository for open-source components. Borrowing Matthias' work would make that process much easier, and we could also look at migrating any unique features of the OurFaces components over to the MyFaces component subproject over time.
Any thoughts?
Kito D. Mann ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Virtua, Inc. (phone: 203-323-1244 fax: 203-323-2363)
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