On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 23:23 +0000, Stephen Colebourne wrote: > Hi, > I'd like to propose something which came up during the current talks on > Jakarta's future. > > One suggestion was that instead of creating Jakarta Http Components, > this group could be Jakarta Network Components. > > In essence, this would mean adopting commons-net > (http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/net). > > The idea is based on a premise that http and net (ftp/finger/smtp...) > might share common interests and could thus form a common community. > > > The downside is that it may distract this group from its current plans, > and it may also be that no-one here is that interested in ftp/smtp/nntp > etc. Also, commons-net is a mature product with relatively little > community - one which might benefit from a broader outlook. >
Stephen, Can we expect any of the existing Commons [Net] committers to join the project if we took the Commons [Net] on board? Would they be willing to split the code base into a separate module per a network protocol? Otherwise wouldn't it be kind of silly if we had almost a dozen modules dedicated to various aspects of HTTP and one module containing all other protocols (ftp, smtp, finger, and so on)? Oleg > > Anyway, please consider this as a brainstorm idea. Nothing is being > forced on you. Think of it as an opportunity if you guys are interested. > If not, then at least the suggestion was made! > > Stephen > PS. I'm aware that this discussion might have been better a few months > ago... > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
