, 2017 13:23
> To: dev@community.apache.org
> Subject: Re: Apache and Java
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> @Spaghetti Roulette: I am wondering why did this confuse you in the
> first
> place ? Do you have an idea that you would like to bring to ASF th
Folks may want to check out the analysis that Karanjeet Singh and I did with
DRAT
regarding Apache projects, and their code diversity:
http://drat.dyndns.org:8080/dratviz/
DRAT is here:
http://github.com/chrismattmann/drat/
Thanks for listening.
Chris
On 3/19/17, 12:57 PM, "Christopher" wr
Hi
I believe also it might have to do with timing reasons.
When Open Source software started to prove by time that it can get people
together to produce high quality software that different
businesses/enterprises can trust to operate their business, Java/JEE was
at the center of the hype, and
I think you've got the question backwards. The ASF does not really create
projects. Projects create development communities at ASF. So, I think the
real question should be: what makes Apache so appealing to Java-based
projects?
I think the answer to that question is probably "the same things that
It doesn't matter that the ASF has a lot of Java code. What matters is
that a lot of communities who wrote Java tools decided to come to the
ASF to build their projects here.
The ASF exists to create software for the public good, and we do that by
supporting the projects who want to be here. So
Java is a good language choice if you want object orientated programming
support and are targeting multiple platforms. That is likely to be the
case for many Apache projects.
Apache OpenOffice is mainly C++. It has an unpleasantly complicated
configuration process and multiple sets of build in
First of all, we don't want language wars here, and as you correctly point
out, the language is a tool and more often than not it isn't the "problem
at hand" that defines which language to use, but which language most people
in the group are good at. And some languages are harder to be good at, and
A quick thought I want to add .. can we extend this discussion for,
1. What ASF project should have been done in other language apart from JAVA
? and Why ?
2. In the current time JAVA is massive but what feature is lacking in java
which gives other language a chance to this sport event ?
PS. I d
+1
just a little addition: "Java at Apache" was called Jakarta
I don't know if newbies know about Jakarta nowadays, but Jakarta was the home
for so many tools that became later independant Apache Top Level Projects
Regards,
Hervé
Le dimanche 19 mars 2017, 17:03:09 CET Niclas Hedhman a écrit :
I think it is a combination of several factors;
* Historical - The first non-httpd project in Apache was Java, followed
by a handful of others.
* Java is one of the big languages.
* Some projects are spin-offs from other ASF projects
* External Java projects knows Apache Java projects v
Why do Apache projects use Java so extensively? It looks to me that a lot of
projects, if not most of them, are written in Java, and I can't get my head
around this fact. Is there any reason, perhaps technical, or is it just
coincidence?
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