DbUtils exhibits all of the qualities of a component that should be in Commons proper: - It's small and focused. - It's API is well defined - It has a group of existing Jakarta committers providing code, ideas, and support. - It has good unit test coverage. It has also been tested in real world database applications. - It has automated nightly builds, website, and Maven all working - It has incubated in the sandbox for long enough to become stable
DbUtils is a mature component that should move to Commons proper so it can be released to the public. Here's my +1.
Looks like this is likely to pass. Are there any committers on dbutils that have karma for the jakarta-commons-sandbox repository but don't have karma on jakarta-commons itself? If so, I can clean that up when the code gets promoted as well.
Craig
The website has additional information: http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/sandbox/dbutils/index.html
Here's the component proposal for reference: (0) Rationale
Correct JDBC coding is time consuming and error prone. Many
JDBC coding tasks can be simplified with a small helper library
that factors out the mundane resource cleanup steps. DbUtils
is focused on providing such a library without any heavyweight framework surrounding it.
(1) Scope of the Package
This proposal is to create a package of Java utility classes for various types of JDBC related activity. DbUtils will not be an OO representation of database objects nor will it be an Object/Relational framework. It will be a lightweight JDBC library that helps developers write correct database code.
(1.5) Interaction With Other Packages
DBUtils relies only on standard Java 1.2 (or later) APIs for
production deployment. It utilizes the JUnit testing framework for
developing and executing unit tests, but this is of interest only to
developers of the component. Being dependent on Java 1.2 means that this code is expected to be of JDBC 2.0 level.
No external configuration files are utilized.
(2) Initial Source of the Package
Potential source code for this package will come from the initial committers' personal libraries.
The proposed package name for the new component is <code>org.apache.commons.dbutils</code>.
(3) Required Jakarta-Commons Resources
CVS Repository - New directory dbutils in the jakarta-commons CVS repository.
Mailing List - Discussions will take place on the general [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list. To help list subscribers identify messages of interest, it is suggested that the message subject of messages about this component be prefixed with [dbutils].
Bugzilla - New component "DBUtils" under the "Commons" product category, with appropriate version identifiers as needed.
(4) Initial Committers
The initial committers on the DBUtils component shall be: Henri Yandell Steven Caswell Juozas Baliuka David Graham
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