Hi, I have recently discovered, that Geronimo contains a collection of J2EE clean room implementations. IMO, it would be better, if we offered them to take the jaxmeapi sources and add them to their collection.
I see the following disadvantages: - Being no Geronimo committers, we could no longer maintain the sources. But the API is mandated to us by an external source (the JAXB SPEC) anyways, to which the Geronimo developers are bound as well. Besides, the API sources have been exceptionally stable with only very few and minor changes in the last two years. - Introduced dependency from an external jar file. (Possibly even more, because some classes from jaxmeapi are already present in other Geronimo jar files, for example QName and XMLConstants. But this is the case for Java <= 1.4 only.) However, we'd dropped the dependency from an internal jar file. On the other hand, we had the following advantages: - Smaller project, faster builds - Better visibility for the jar file (a real lot of Apache projects are still using JAXB jar files, even if the API were sufficient) - Some projects, which are dependent on JaxMe, are actually dependent on the jaxmeapi.jar only. They would no longer be dependent from us. In other words, we'd reduce the pressure of fixing Gump problems. What do you think? Dims [] Ias [] Jochen [+1] Nacho [] Robert [] -- Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat. (Mark Twain) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
