Re: Java Transaction API

2008-08-08 Thread William L. Thomson Jr.
On Sun, 2008-08-03 at 17:28 +0100, Andrew John Hughes wrote: > > I know you've done a lot of work to improve Free Java > support on Gentoo, but the distro overall is less concerned with > ensuring that packages are Free than, say, Debian or Fedora. It's more a matter of hands and itches, than it i

Re: Java Transaction API

2008-08-03 Thread Petteri Räty
Mark Wielaard kirjoitti: I am unsure. I doubt any other distro ships the proprietary version. Why does Gentoo when (multiple) free versions are available? We have been doing this long before open source versions existed. We just haven't been quick to replace things that don't show up in dep

Re: Java Transaction API

2008-08-03 Thread Andrew John Hughes
On 03/08/2008, Petteri Räty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mark Wielaard kirjoitti: > > > > > I am unsure. I doubt any other distro ships the proprietary version. Why > > does Gentoo when (multiple) free versions are available? > > > > > > We have been doing this long before open source versions exi

Re: Java Transaction API

2008-08-03 Thread Andrew John Hughes
On 03/08/2008, Mark Wielaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Andrew, > > > On Thu, 2008-07-31 at 22:52 +0100, Andrew John Hughes wrote: > > It seems Classpath includes the full set of interfaces for the Java > > Transaction API: > > > > http://

Re: Java Transaction API

2008-08-03 Thread Mark Wielaard
Hi Andrew, On Thu, 2008-07-31 at 22:52 +0100, Andrew John Hughes wrote: > It seems Classpath includes the full set of interfaces for the Java > Transaction API: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_Transaction_API > > while the J2SE spec. only prescribes three except

Java Transaction API

2008-07-31 Thread Andrew John Hughes
Dear all, It seems Classpath includes the full set of interfaces for the Java Transaction API: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_Transaction_API while the J2SE spec. only prescribes three exceptions used by CORBA: http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/javax/transaction/package-summary.html