Jakarta's mission

[Henri Yandell <ba...@generationjava.com>]

I know too well the problem of over-spamming a mail list with attempts at 
thought provoking emails, but I also know that time is nowadays a precious 
commodity so I'm going to spam away and see if anyone's not drooling out 
of their ears by the end of all these mails.

Will keep this one short. I've long maintained that Jakarta has an 
identity crisis (which someone pointed out is not news and has been true 
for many years). I've realised by looking over the website and thoughts on 
the future that this is not quite true. Jakarta has many identities trying 
to fit into the one space.

We have three that I recognise, and you can see these throughout the site.

1) Umbrella of server-side Java applications, specifically web 
containers/frameworks.
2) Umbrella of re-useable Java components.
3) Umbrella of Java@Apache. More a SourceForge foundry than an ASF 
umbrella.

Taglibs is a wonderful subproject that even merges 1+2 to make things even 
more of a pain, though it's not as chaotic (in the good as well as bad 
sense of the word) as Coommons.

You can see examples of 3) in the various 'Related' links on the site in 
which we attempt to maintain links to the parts of our community that have 
become TLPs. It's a mess.

I'll stop before I ramble on too much. We're the information architecture 
equivalent of an Escher drawing and it's very thought provoking.

Hen

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