[Fwd: Re: Commit Status Request]

[Paul Hammant <Pa...@yahoo.com>]

You folks may be interested................

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: Commit Status Request
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 16:10:49 +0000
From: Paul Hammant <Pa...@yahoo.com>
To: Jakarta Commons Developers List <co...@jakarta.apache.org>
References: <3C...@shpimp.com>

Jeff,

 >This is Jeff Prickett and I would like to request Commit Status in the
 >Commons so that I can continue iCalendar development and attempt to
 >build a community around the product.
 >
+1 from me.  I'm not quite sure of the voting rules given that I am
active in one Commons project only.

I saw your discussion on jakarta-general list and am personally pleased
that you are back.

You had stated that you'd be keen on EJB.  I'd like to propose that you
consider two alternate scenarios:

1) Refactor to use jakarta-avalon-phoenix as a base, with
jakarta-avalon-excalibur, jakarta-avalon-cornerstone and jakarta-commons
components to assist development.

2) Merge in with the jakarta-james project.  This is as (1) above, but a
preexisting project.  They already have a server that simulteaeously
hosts POP3, SMTP, IMAP, NNTP.  iCalendar (as a related RFC server
protocol) fits directly with their designs.

If I may cross-quote you:

   "If I chose EJB I am probably going to spend a lot of time
    explaining it to newcomers, it is a lot more complicated than
    non-EJB, but it will be based on what is fast becoming the
    industry standard for server side components."

Phoenix exists because you can't make a Mail or Web-server etc from EJB
comps.  You can make it from those described in (1) above :

These have done-
   JAMES - http://jakarta.apache.org/james/ (Mail)
   Jo! - http://www.tagtraum.com/ (web server)
   JabberServer - http://sourceforge.net/projects/jabaserver (Jabber IM)
   Plus others that are not ready yet.

Regards,

- Paul H



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