You need a search engine for these "little things" maybe off the main page. With something catchy under it like "High your software has already been written for you...find it here". This would ecourage useful javadoc comments as well. So if I type "tree" I should see all the tree classes in the collections stuff under commons for instance.
Its useless to say "reuse" when "reuse" implies finding it which implies knowing where to look for it. You're expecting people to go through each and every project and say 'humm is there a TreeMap that does key->value and value->key here ...nope let me search through the rest of all the projects'... I here there is a java indexing package on sourceforge that could be used for this :-D (j/k) -Andy > Hi Jon, > I think there is reason for the concern you are raising. I see a lot > of other work repeated in other sub-projects too. > Commons seems to be the only place where such smaller simple use > components are visible. Most people just search there before and > most think that Turbine and Avalon are big blocks of indivisible > code. > Maybe the way to go is just to move such components to the Commons. > Why not moving Intake now? > Maybe this issue needs regulation, but this kind of think tends to > work better if you use the carrot before applying the whip. > =;o) > Have fun, > Paulo Gaspar -- www.superlinksoftware.com www.sourceforge.net/projects/poi - port of Excel format to java http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/bugParade/bugs/4487555.html - fix java generics! The avalanche has already started. It is too late for the pebbles to vote. -Ambassador Kosh -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
