next possible commons project [regexp]

2002-09-27 Thread Tomasz Pik
My summary of the discussion that I started: 1 Many thanks to everybody, who responds; 2 I didn't know about 'pluggable' ORO possibilty, I'll take a look at this (puting something in commons only to have 'commons' in package name is not a good idea); 3 I agree that totally 'bootstraping'

RE: next possible commons project - [regexp] (or [template?])

2002-09-26 Thread Joe Germuska
From: Tomasz Pik [EMAIL PROTECTED] Original Message Java 1.4 has a new regex package, and there are others that could be considered if a reliance on 1.4 is to be avoided. Maybe something like 'Commons Logging' - one hat (with limited

Re: next possible commons project - [regexp]

2002-09-26 Thread Berin Loritsch
Daniel Rall wrote: Jeff Dever [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jakarta does have a top level regexp project: http://jakarta.apache.org/regexp/ Jakarta Regexp is the more simple of the two Jakarta regex packages (I believe that Tomcat uses this one). ORO is much more full featured, offering

Re: next possible commons project - [regexp]

2002-09-26 Thread Stephen Colebourne
: Re: next possible commons project - [regexp] Daniel Rall wrote: Jeff Dever [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jakarta does have a top level regexp project: http://jakarta.apache.org/regexp/ Jakarta Regexp is the more simple of the two Jakarta regex packages (I believe that Tomcat uses

Re: next possible commons project - [regexp]

2002-09-26 Thread Daniel Rall
Jeff Dever [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jakarta does have a top level regexp project: http://jakarta.apache.org/regexp/ Jakarta Regexp is the more simple of the two Jakarta regex packages (I believe that Tomcat uses this one). ORO is much more full featured, offering the full power of Perl 5

Re: next possible commons project - [regexp]

2002-09-26 Thread Berin Loritsch
Stephen Colebourne wrote: In the same way as [logging], by not being a regexp package itself. Of course it may just not be appropriate... To be honest, I don't like the autodiscovery mechanisms in Commons logging. I would be hard pressed to support another something like that for something

Re: next possible commons project - [regexp]

2002-09-26 Thread Daniel F. Savarese
Stephen Colebourne writes: In the same way as [logging], by not being a regexp package itself. Of course it may just not be appropriate... I just want to point out that jakarta-oro is more than just a regular expression package and already contains the generic interfaces to wrap other packages

Re: next possible commons project - [regexp]

2002-09-26 Thread Stephen Colebourne
I just want to point out that jakarta-oro is more than just a regular expression package and already contains the generic interfaces to wrap other packages (as it is, oro already implements 3 different regular expression grammars). It's a simple matter to add a factory to generate generic

Re: next possible commons project - [regexp]

2002-09-26 Thread Steve Downey
On Thursday 26 September 2002 12:27 pm, Berin Loritsch wrote: Stephen Colebourne wrote: In the same way as [logging], by not being a regexp package itself. Of course it may just not be appropriate... To be honest, I don't like the autodiscovery mechanisms in Commons logging. I would be

Re: next possible commons project - [regexp]

2002-09-26 Thread Daniel F. Savarese
Steve Downey wrote: The odds of having two projects that require regexp packages that can also tolerate having the definition of regular expression changed underneath them approaches zero. I agree with this as far as most applications are concerned. I don't know the original motivation for

Re: next possible commons project - [regexp]

2002-09-26 Thread Steve Downey
On Thursday 26 September 2002 02:35 pm, Daniel F. Savarese wrote: Steve Downey wrote: The odds of having two projects that require regexp packages that can also tolerate having the definition of regular expression changed underneath them approaches zero. I agree with this as far as most

Re: next possible commons project - [regexp]

2002-09-26 Thread Daniel Rall
Steve Downey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thursday 26 September 2002 12:27 pm, Berin Loritsch wrote: Stephen Colebourne wrote: In the same way as [logging], by not being a regexp package itself. Of course it may just not be appropriate... To be honest, I don't like the