FYI, to date the discussion I opened on jcp-open to try to understand people's experiences re developing reference impls in an environment that fosters innovation is sadly inconclusive. There are 2 respondents to date, one with a strong opinion that there is no conflict, and one proposing that there is a significant conflict.
Kelvin. On 19/02/2008, kelvin goodson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On 19/02/2008, Simon Nash <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > <snip/> > > > > > One topic from the tuscany-user discussion that's worth exposing here > > is whether the NNY project would be a "pure RI" with no extensions > > beyond the spec, or a vehicle for innovation to extend the specs, as > > both Tuscany SCA and SDO have been. My view is that it will need to > > be at least some of the latter in order to build a sustainable > > community of developers and users. > > > +1 > > This will create some challenges > > given that one of the goals of the NNY project is to deliver the > > official JCP RI. > > > > Simon > > <snip/> > > I just asked a question on the jcp-open mailing list to find out how other > projects that do RIs in Apache handle the apparent contention. It should > appear under a February 2008 heading in the mailing list archive at [1] > shortly. > > Kelvin. > > [1] http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-jcp-open/
