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Posted to dev@ws.apache.org by Davanum Srinivas <da...@gmail.com> on 2004/05/21 22:53:12 UTC
Fwd: moving JAM to org.apache.jam
FYI, one more option for working with annotations (for JSR 181 impl)
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From: Patrick Calahan <pc...@bea.com>
Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 11:53:41 -0700
Subject: Re: moving JAM to org.apache.jam
To: Dain Sundstrom <da...@coredevelopers.net>, general@incubator.apache.org
At 10:59 AM 5/21/2004 -0500, Dain Sundstrom wrote:
>Patrick,
>
>I have heard a lot of good things about JAM, but have not looked at it
>yet. In Geronimo we would like to offer support for annotations in the
>GBean service layer, but that would mean using a 1.5 VM. I don't see us
>raising the minimum required VM to 1.5 until J2EE 1.5 comes out
>(2007-2008?). I only see this desire to use an annotation like system
>expanding as more users adopt java 1.5, so if JAM can provide an upgrade
>path I for one would be very interested.
Right, I have exactly the same problem in xml-beans, so that is what JAM is
designed to solve.
>BTW where is the current documentation for JAM? The links on
>http://www.pcal.net/jam don't seem to be valid anymore.
Hi Dain. My apologies, I'm a bit still trying to get my online house in
order. I just refreshed the docs - you can see them at
http://www.pcal.net/jam/docs/index.html
I should have the binaries and sources available for download very soon as
well.
Thanks,
-p
>-dain
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Patrick Calahan [mailto:pcal@bea.com]
>>Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2004 15:27
>>To: projects@incubator.apache.org
>>Subject: Fwd: moving JAM to org.apache.jam
>>
>>
>>Hello. I'm a committer on the xml-beans project. As part of my work
>>there, I've written an API called 'JAM' (Java API for Metadata) that is
>>becoming a useful technology in its own right. JAM is distinct from
>>xml-beans - it is used by xbean's java-to-schema compilers, but JAM does
>>not use xbeans at all.
>>
>>I built JAM to solve a particular set of problems that I have relating to
>>metadata and JSR175, and I believe that many other java developers are
>>going to need a solution to those same problems very soon. I already have
>>some consumers of the API who don't care about xbeans - they only want the
>>services that JAM provides.
>>
>>Accordingly, I am trying to give it some more visibility. One thing I
>>would like to do is give it a better package name; it currently is
>>
>> org.apache.xmlbean.impl.jam
>>
>>Ideally, I would like it to be
>>
>> org.apache.jam
>>
>>but I'm not sure what Apache's policies are on using top-level package
>>names - I figured I'd better talk to someone about it first. I bounced the
>>idea off of the xmlbeans-dev list last week, and everyone there seems ok
>>with it (email appended).
>>
>>Ultimately, I really think JAM should be a separate project. I'd love for
>>it to be an Apache project if possible, though I'm not sure what I should
>>do to start that process.
>>
>>If you want to read more about JAM, I've temporarily posted the docs and
>>some white papers here:
>>
>> http://www.pcal.net/jam
>>
>>
>>Thanks,
>>-p
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