On Tue, 2004-03-16 at 15:02, Alex Karasulu wrote: > > So really, who cares about CJAN. The spec that goes defacto is the one > > manifest in the mechanism used by the most people. Unless of course SUN > > steps in at some point and tries to propose a JSR which wouldn't > > surprise me at all. > > It's such an undertaking that it might be good to have a JSR around it but > that could take so long :(. > > Alex
Yes, an by that time, I doubt a JSR would be of value because there would already be tools and specs in place and used by the community... I suspect a JSR would be valuable if the network existed already and we were talking about native support for resolving and downloading dependencies in the J2RE/SDK. -- Mark R. Diggory Software Developer - VDC Project Harvard MIT Data Center http://www.hmdc.harvard.edu