Re: "coming out" for JSF + Struts, was: Struts JSR?)

[Michael McGrady <mi...@michaelmcgrady.com>]

+1

At 03:15 AM 3/23/2004, you wrote:
>On Mon, 22 Mar 2004 23:49:31 -0800 (PST), Martin Cooper wrote:
> >> On the multi-repository projects I've worked on, we had a special
> >> repository  just for integration tasks like this.
> >
> > So we'd need yet another repo - say struts-integration - just for
> > this. Why is that better than just doing what we need within the
> > repo that we have already?
>
>Well, as you mentioned, another way to go would be for some one to write a 
>tool that could burst and rejar an arbitrary set of jars. (If one doesn't 
>already exist.) The source for such a tool could live in the core since 
>it's just something a volunteer would run offline and the upload. It 
>wouldn't be a true deliverable. And, I'm not convinced that we even need 
>to do such a thing. Even without a few extra JARs of our own, there are 
>still all the Commons JARs. (Though I suppose we could roll together those 
>too.) I'd tend to leave this for a end-user to do, say if there were 
>distributing a particular Struts distribution to several teams in an 
>enterprise. But it would be nice to provide a tool for this (if someone 
>had the itch to write it.) It really sounds like a job for Sun :)
>
>
>On Mon, 22 Mar 2004 20:50:24 -0800 (PST), Martin Cooper wrote:
> > I'd be open to it, but I think we have a lot of things we'd want to
> > do to get our own house in order before we actually take action on
> > this. I also think it might be a tricky issue in some respects. For
> > example, we'll be faced with making subjective decisions on
> > potentially substantial bodies of code, leading to the possibility
> > of "why not mine?" kinds of things. For larger code bases, we'd
> > also likely need to have some discussions with the incubator folks.
> >
> > But, as you say, let's get our own house in order first, and then
> > come back and talk about this some more.
>
>And in deciding how to renovate our house, let's keep in mind that we may 
>be having more children :)
>
>How about if we split the difference:
>
>core module:
>
>/core
>/site
>/apps
>
>opt-modules:
>
>* opt-taglib
>* opt-el
>* opt-faces
>* opt-dev ("sandbox")
>
>So, we'd go from seven to five.
>
>Then, later on, if we invite some of our friends to join us, and they move 
>in, we just add more opt modules.
>
>-Ted.
>
>
>
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