Re: [PATCH] about kjc

2001-12-02 Thread Peter Donald
On Sun, 2 Dec 2001 08:03, Jon Stevens wrote: > on 12/1/01 10:08 AM, "Remy Maucherat" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hi, tomcat users and developrs! > >> > >> /* I have post this patch twice. This is third time. */ > >> > >> Do you know kjc which is one of the completely opensource Java > >> compi

Re: [JSR-96-Members] JSR-096 (Java Daemon API) critique...

2001-06-30 Thread Peter Donald
mons in the Java Language and with the help of > the community, will be improved and enhanced. > > I believe that this expert group went too far, forgetting its roots, and > the real problems that we needed to solve. > > Also, another problem I faced while working with this grou

RE: Thread-safety

2001-01-28 Thread Peter Donald
At 03:13 27/1/01 +0100, Paulo Gaspar wrote: >Bruce Eckel on his book "Thinking in Java" states that a simple method call >(no parameters) takes 5.9 units of time while a synchronized method call >takes >570. OTOH, object creation takes 980 which makes it an even worse >alternative. Depends on th

Re: Interceptors

2001-01-25 Thread Peter Donald
At 01:09 22/1/01 +, PSA wrote: >> Under windows it gets it's events from a multitude of different sources >> (some are grabbed from eventqueue, others from win32 hooks and others are >> application created) then routes them through a central message queue and >> central dispatching model. In

Re: [PROPOSAL] Tomcat 3.3 Release Plan

2001-01-24 Thread Peter Donald
At 10:49 24/1/01 -0800, Jon Stevens wrote: >on 1/24/01 10:06 AM, "Larry Isaacs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> It should be noted that when this plan comes up for a vote, a +1 by a >> committer will constitute a commitment not only to helping with the release, >> but to provide maintenance suppo

Re: Forming an opinion

2001-01-22 Thread Peter Donald
At 11:08 23/1/01 +1100, Geoff Soutter wrote: >Any ideas how we can effectively deal with opinionated people without >muzzling them? don't bother responding to them unless they do things the right way. email them OFF list stating this in a very diplomatic way. Watch them explode and then hopefull

Re: TC4's classloader choking on xerces.jar (maybe)

2001-01-21 Thread Peter Donald
At 04:34 21/1/01 -0800, Craig R. McClanahan wrote: >The precise answer to what works depends on how your particular class loader is >implemented. My experience (although this classloading stuff is "black magic" at >times) is that URLClassLoader, which is what Tomcat 4.0 uses, follows the process

Re: TC4's classloader choking on xerces.jar (maybe)

2001-01-21 Thread Peter Donald
At 04:08 21/1/01 -0800, Craig R. McClanahan wrote: >Sealing is one "user error" issue that will cause classloading to fail inside >Tomcat. Another is the fact that a particular class can only see other classes >in its own classloaders, and parents of that classloader, but not children. The >net

RE: Rollover for each day ? Is this possible ??

2001-01-21 Thread Peter Donald
At 12:24 19/1/01 +0100, Ceki Gulcu wrote: >1) The new appender should have flexible way of expressing the rollover >frequency, perhaps in the same format as in the Unix crontabs file which I >belive is also a Posix standard. I am not aware of any library that >supports this. JDring (http://web

RE: Interceptors

2001-01-18 Thread Peter Donald
Hi, At 12:29 19/1/01 +0100, Paulo Gaspar wrote: >> -Original Message- >> From: Craig R. McClanahan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >> Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2001 23:04 >> >> One appropriate question to ask yourself, when comparing, is >> "what does having 15 >> entry points give me tha

Re: Proposed release of 3.3

2001-01-18 Thread Peter Donald
At 12:30 18/1/01 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >2. It seems he made a distinction between +1 ( I support the plan or >release ) and "commited" +1 ( I support the plan _and_ I commit to help). I understood the first case to be a +0 - ie nice idea but I ain't gonna put any effort into maintainin

Re: Jakarta PMC Meeting Agenda / Info

2001-01-17 Thread Peter Donald
At 12:52 17/1/01 -0800, Randall Parker wrote: >Peter, > >Amazingly expensive. Calling from the US to Australia is incredibly cheap by comparison. Check out: > http://1010phonerates.com/aus_etc.html I found some cheaper options (75c a minute daytime, 20c a minute at certain periods at night) but

Breath again ???

2001-01-15 Thread Peter Donald
Hi, I noticed that the list is starting to devolve a little so perhaps the opinion of a complete outsider with no bias (that I am aware of) could help ;) >From what I understand the main objections of a 3.2 are 1. You don't want to have 2 different containers implementing 2.3 under Apache 2. You

RE: FW: Jakarta PMC Meeting Agenda / Info

2001-01-15 Thread Peter Donald
At 11:04 15/1/01 +0100, GOMEZ Henri wrote: >Yes 3.3 = 3.2 + .1, no more a revolution (allready acted) but a necessary >evolution. The revolution will be TC 4.0 but when will it be available for >production (connectors and extensive testing). Also TC 4.0 need many >externals >stuff to build (ie JM

Re: Jakarta PMC Meeting Agenda / Info

2001-01-15 Thread Peter Donald
At 12:10 15/1/01 -0800, Jon Stevens wrote: >Actually NOTHING has been debated OR decided on any of the closed lists. I >wonder how many times I (and others) need to repeat that to you before you >actually hear and acknowledge it. every time it arises or there is conflict - thats the joy of close

Re: Jakarta PMC Meeting Agenda / Info

2001-01-14 Thread Peter Donald
At 05:48 14/1/01 -0800, Jon Stevens wrote: >> I know it's out of context but this neatly summarizes it doesn't it ;) What >> you may ask - well let me elaborate. When I first started working with >> Apache peeps it was great - I never heard any complaints or had any issues. >> It was Stefano who

Re: FW: Jakarta PMC Meeting Agenda / Info

2001-01-14 Thread Peter Donald
At 05:43 13/1/01 -0800, Hans Bergsten wrote: >If you have any interest in the future of the Jakarta project, I think you >should come. I know it's out of context but this neatly summarizes it doesn't it ;) What you may ask - well let me elaborate. When I first started working with Apache peeps

Re: [PROPOSAL] Tomcat 4 SecurityManager implementation

2001-01-14 Thread Peter Donald
ionAction; import java.security.PrivilegedActionException; import java.security.cert.Certificate; import java.util.ArrayList; import java.util.Enumeration; import java.util.PropertyPermission; import org.apache.avalon.util.io.FileUtil; import org.apache.avalon.Component; import org.apache.avalon.Loggable; import org.a

RE: An alternative to JSP

2001-01-12 Thread Peter Donald
At 07:22 12/1/01 -0600, Nick Bauman wrote: >Somewhat unrelated, I hear a lot of people going gaga over XSLT for web >development. I understand the desire: a single document represents the >data of the page, while other documents are used to convert that data for >different clients / views with an

Re: jaxp 1.0.1 and 1.1 RPMs

2001-01-11 Thread Peter Donald
At 04:42 11/1/01 +0100, GOMEZ Henri wrote: >Hi to all Suners. > >I finished some time ago RPM for jaxp 1.0.1 and jaxp 1.1 EARLY ADOPTERs. >Who could do something to have these RPMS available at Sun or Apache >site ? Unfortunately it's not legal to have jaxp1.1 available via apache as there is 6

Re: participating in tomcat development

2001-01-10 Thread Peter Donald
At 06:11 10/1/01 -0800, GoldenDawn Fan wrote: >Hi, is there a pre-set spec?? And where can I get >source code...? Source code via CVS - detaiks at http://jakarta.apache.org/site/cvsindex.html You should also browse http://jakarta.apache.org/site/guidelines.html http://jakarta.apache.org/site/

Re: participating in tomcat development

2001-01-10 Thread Peter Donald
Hi there, At 03:39 10/1/01 -0800, GoldenDawn Fan wrote: >Hi, I'd very much like to participate in developing >tomcat. Where should I start? Can someone please et >me know? The best way is to start reading the mailing list, fiddling with code and asking questions. When you think you understa

Re: [jBoss-Dev] Re: jboss on tomcat update

2000-10-30 Thread Peter Donald
we have to derive: >usefulness(jBoss)+usefulness(Tomcat) <= 0. >;-) or you have outsiders like me who use neither product ;) >Peter Donald wrote: >> >| I think it would definitely be safe to download a set of RPMs (one >> >|per product) and then install th

RE: [jBoss-Dev] Re: jboss on tomcat update

2000-10-29 Thread Peter Donald
At 01:39 29/10/00 -0800, marc fleury wrote: ...some truly misguided stuff... Oh - so I take that as "No I haven't contacted lawyers nor anyone who knows what they are talking about". Well considering you have been made aware on a publically archived list you really will have no defense in court

Re: [jBoss-Dev] Re: jboss on tomcat update

2000-10-29 Thread Peter Donald
At 08:55 29/10/00 +0100, Rickard Öberg wrote: >Jon Stevens wrote: >> >> on 10/28/2000 5:22 PM, "Peter Donald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > Once RMS finds out >> > about the project misusing the GPL he will start advocating all the GN

RE: [jBoss-Dev] Re: jboss on tomcat update

2000-10-28 Thread Peter Donald
>| What can I say? I agree that this is a reasonable interpretation. >|But I don't think it's the only interpretation, and I'm not sure it's even >|the interpretation intended by the authors. There's another section that >|specifically allows distribution of GPL and non-GPL programs on the

Re: [jBoss-Dev] Re: jboss on tomcat update

2000-10-28 Thread Peter Donald
> The problem is, I'm in a situation where (to quote "Ronin"), >"Whenever there's a doubt, there is no doubt." Whatever you say, I >haven't heard anything that convinces me that the interpretation is clear >- I can easily see both sides of the disagreement. I suspect the only way >for this

Re: [jBoss-Dev] Re: jboss on tomcat update

2000-10-28 Thread Peter Donald
At 04:35 28/10/00 -0700, you wrote: >on 10/28/2000 4:06 PM, "marc fleury" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Indeed if the Avalon guy puts jBoss code in his tree and "contains" our work >> in his work then yeah.. that needs to be GPL. > >Bingo. So, this is something that is a major problem for me.

Re: [jBoss-Dev] Re: jboss on tomcat update

2000-10-28 Thread Peter Donald
At 02:18 28/10/00 -0700, you wrote: >on 10/28/2000 10:05 AM, "marc fleury" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I am sorry, I should actually provide some information. >> >> We use the GPL to protect the kernel. The virality of the GPL applies to >> the "derived work" or "modified work as a whole" o

Re: [jBoss-Dev] Re: jboss on tomcat update

2000-10-28 Thread Peter Donald
At 02:06 28/10/00 -0700, Jon Stevens wrote: >on 10/27/2000 10:10 PM, "marc fleury" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> | but at the same time, you have a problem with the GPL being >> |viral so you give exceptions for people to use JBoss. Instead, what you >> |should do is probably be using the MPL l

RE: [jBoss-Dev] Re: jboss on tomcat update

2000-10-28 Thread Peter Donald
>> I am sorry, I should actually provide some information. >> >> We use the GPL to protect the kernel. The virality of the GPL applies to >> the "derived work" or "modified work as a whole" of the kernel. ummm - hello ? - you should seek legal advice as this is NOT what the GPL saids. It was de

Re: jboss on tomcat update

2000-10-27 Thread Peter Donald
Hi, I figured I may respond because I may be one of those you think are being religious and I aren't .. honest ;) At 07:18 27/10/00 -0700, Jon Stevens wrote: >on 10/27/2000 4:47 PM, "marc fleury" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Re: the licenses. I read many of the arguments regarding the license