on 1/7/02 5:18 PM, "Paulo Gaspar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Jboss's success seems to be one project. I'm actually glad they went to >> sourceforge...they would have struggled to survive here... > > How can you know? I hosted their project on my servers for the first couple of years they were alive and have had a boat load of conversations with Marc. > I have studied their code and their documentation some months ago, I > have also followed some of their mailling lists for sometime and that is > not that obvious to me. > > I do NOT prefer what they call community. I do not find their code that > good. I do not like their documentation that much. > > JBoss success has a lot to do with the lack of credible alternative for > something with a lot of demand I think it is more than that though...they have worked to develop a community and a LOT of interest. At least that is what their website suggests. It could be a result of what you say, but Jakarta's success isn't necessarily because of our projects or our community...it is because of the Apache name behind it. >, unlike Jakarta products like Tomcat or > Velocity. Velocity isn't that successful compared with projects like Tomcat or Struts. There is only 500 people on the -user mailing list and 220 on the -dev Velocity lists. Of course we don't have Sun marketing backing us though... :-( -jon -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
