While there was an outage, the W3C pages related to DDR Simple seem up again. This page is very interesting: http://www.w3.org/2005/MWI/DDWG/drafts/api/test-report.html
It showed, what compatible implementations existed, and at least in an earlier version the most popular and likely commercially successful (true;-) WURFL competitor DeviceAtlas did or still does implement it, too. Passani's argument it is not used seems bullshit. If it became outdated and e.g. DeviceAtlas no longer use those Java APIs, we could also question it. Otherwise let's find a way to use it with Maven. Werner On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 6:47 PM, Werner Keil <[email protected]> wrote: > Weird, hopefully it's only a side-effect of Hurricane Arthur, but all of > W3C.org consistently seems DOWN right now, including the DDR API standard > history. > > Another reason to not rely on e.g. the JAR the site also did provide for > historical reasons, but it seems better to find a BINARY distro than having > to build it from a codebase like the one on GitHub (or elsewhere, not sure > if W3C itself still has it, but AFAIK just like other standards like HTML5 > you are free to use them without restriction or royalties[?]) > > On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 6:02 PM, Werner Keil <[email protected]> wrote: > >> It is simply a clone of this: >> https://github.com/fnk/w3c-ddr >> >> Essentially we would not need the source form in our SVN but the real key >> problem is, whether or not a BINARY Maven artifact can be provided in a >> proper way? >> >> So far nobody bothered putting it on MavenCentral. Unless there is a >> legal reason W3C would prohibit that, I guess they just didn't see Java or >> Maven as important. >> So consider it a "mirror" of the Git repo. If the DeviceMap build system >> was flexible enough to grab it from his GitHub repo, then we could delete >> the mirror. >> >> We must find a way to "Mavenize" the target binary, otherwise there is no >> point in using the W3C Simple DDR and we might have to drop the DDR >> features once and for all[?] >> >> Werner >> >> On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 5:22 PM, Bertrand Delacretaz < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hi (Werner mostly as you committed this), >>> >>> The code under [1] is apparently from W3C, did you have permission >>> from whoever owns its copyright to contribute it to this project? >>> >>> I don't see any license information, and lots of author tags which >>> might indicate ownership - or not. >>> >>> I don't see an urgent need to remove that from our repository, but we >>> should find out whether you were actually allowed to copy it here or >>> not. >>> >>> -Bertrand >>> >>> [1] >>> https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/devicemap/trunk/contrib/w3c/ddr-simple >>> >> >> >
