good stuff! PS: the JDO TCK is also available via Apache.
-Matthias On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 2:43 PM, Scott O'Bryan <darkar...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello everyone, > > For those of you unfamiliar with the portlet-bridge project, it is > essentially the R.I. implementation of JSR-301 and JSR-328. For over a year > some core people have been working on getting the R.I. up to par. The one > piece that was missing from this was the TCK. > > Well, Michael Freedman will be announcing the release of Portlet Bridge 1.0, > which will become the R.I. for JSR-301 pending approvals. We also got the > legalities of the TCK release figured out as well and I wanted to run things > by the developers before putting a release of the project to a vote. > > Essentially, the TCK exists, en total, here at Apache and is run using a > plugable maven build script instead of Sun's Portal TCK Harness like we were > planning on using initially. What this means is that the TCK will be > downloadable by anyone though the TCK project's svn repository right here at > MyFaces. To my knowledge I think this is a first for Apache and will > hopefully pave the way for continued support of the JCP from the Apache > Community. > > I'd like to start a vote to release the official TCK for JSR-301 tomorrow > but I wanted to do one final sanity check from the community to make sure > this is still in line with what people want. When we talked about the TCK > earlier, there were many questions as to why this TCK could not exist > completely in the open source community and, in the end, that's exactly what > we did. > > Thanks, > Scott O'Bryan > -- Matthias Wessendorf blog: http://matthiaswessendorf.wordpress.com/ sessions: http://www.slideshare.net/mwessendorf twitter: http://twitter.com/mwessendorf
