I saw Flynn.io did a kickstarter-type sponsorship program with corporate
sponsors. And then of course there's Light Table, which was on Kickstarter,
though that was probably a bit more individuals doing the sponsoring.
-Ben
On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 5:16 PM, Dennis Sosnoski <d...@sosnoski.com> wrote:
> Thanks for your support, Shri. I've been reluctant to start asking
> individuals for support, though. JiBX is a project which is largely used in
> commercial systems, and I'd always hoped that enough of these commercial
> users would be willing to contribute funding for the project to thrive.
> Unfortunately, that hasn't been the case.
>
> It'd be interesting to see if anyone could make a Kickstarter-type site
> work for contributions from companies toward projects they use. I'm really
> skeptical this would work, though. Commercial organizations are not
> altruistic, and do not generally spend money on things that will benefit
> their competitors as much as them.
>
> - Dennis
>
>
> On 05/03/2014 02:48 AM, shrikant patel wrote:
>
> Dennis,
>
> I am jibx user I really appreciate the framework. And many many other
> folks\organization use it as well.
>
> I do not know if this was attempted in past, but jibx could use
> kickstarter (or others) to crowd fund this effort. Put a link on jibx site
> on top and email the jibx user group. I am confident the community will
> support it. I will for sure.
>
> Thanks
> Shri
> On Thursday, May 1, 2014 3:59 PM, Dennis Sosnoski
> <d...@sosnoski.com><d...@sosnoski.com>wrote:
> For starters, the BCEL tool used by JiBX is incompatible with Java 8.
> It looks like there's been some work to address this, but there's no new
> release of BCEL and no indication when there might be.
>
> My preferred approach to solve this would be to replace BCEL with the
> more-modern and better maintained ASM library, but that's a pretty
> substantial change that would involve several weeks work for me. The plus
> side it that in the processes of replacing BCEL I'd also clean up some of
> the messiest code in JiBX - but a change of this size would require some
> financial support from one or more companies using JiBX.
>
> - Dennis
>
> On 05/02/2014 03:22 AM, Zachary Lendon wrote:
>
> Any update on Java 8 support? Dennis, you had mentioned earlier in
> April that you had hoped to have something by the end of the month. Have
> you had good progress? We have an app we're looking to upgrade and are
> trying to plan what the proper course of action might be.
>
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