Re: Comments on the commons-logging API

2002-03-29 Thread Peter Donald
On Fri, 29 Mar 2002 13:28, Vladimir Bossicard wrote: god no. The avalon group was already using a facade logger long before commons was for much the same reason commons adopted one. Is Avalon still using its own facade logger or changed to commons-logging? its own. The commons logger does

Re: Comments on the commons-logging API

2002-03-29 Thread Ceki Gülcü
Wait a minute, I know you... You are the apricot (http://sourceforge.net/projects/apricot/) guy. In the fairy tale The Emperor's new clothes, what was the name of the child who calls He's naked. The man in the crown is naked Was it Vladimir Bossicard? At 18:28 28.03.2002 -0800, you

RE: Comments on the commons-logging API

2002-03-29 Thread Danny Angus
+1 We have to be Pro Choice. For better or worse its part of the way things are done. If there is to be one logging API it will emerge with least pain through natural wasteage. Abbot of Citeaux, leading the 13th Century crusade against the Albigensians thundered: “Kill them all, God will know

Re: Comments on the commons-logging API

2002-03-29 Thread Ceki Gülcü
The interesting case is of course measuring performance when logging is turned off. Here is a little experiment. My CLASSPATH: CLASSPATH=.;/java/jdk1.3.1/jre/lib/rt.jar;/home/cgu/ASF/jakarta-log4j-1.2beta4/dist/lib/log4j-1.2beta4.jar;commons-logging-1.0/commons-logging.jar I have written two

RE: Managing versions of Apache Jakarta software

2002-03-29 Thread Danny Angus
Morning, I wrote: I'm not qualified to put forward any suggestions Sam replied: I respectfully disagree. Thanks Sam, I'll now bore you with my own opinion, and see if you change your mind.. ;-) I believe that there are two conflicting forces at work within Jakarta regarding cross

Re: Comments on the commons-logging API

2002-03-29 Thread Ceki Gülcü
Good point, except that the loop length was 100'000'000 so the cost of the first 10'000 calls would be dwarfed by the remaining 99'990'000. Of course there is also: ~/java Indirect 1 log4j: Parsing threshold string [WARN] log4j: Could not find root logger information. Is this OK? log4j:

RE: Managing versions of Apache Jakarta software

2002-03-29 Thread dion
Even less valuable opinions inline :) Danny Angus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 29/03/2002 10:08:45 PM: I don't know how this helps to clarify the situation, but I expect a Jakarta registry is probably required, and the ability for sub-projects to define their classpaths as part of their

Re: Managing versions of Apache Jakarta software

2002-03-29 Thread Peter Donald
On Fri, 29 Mar 2002 22:08, Danny Angus wrote: This raises a couple of issues though.. a) it implies that there be an ant based installer for each application participating in the scheme Maybe not an ant based installer. However what it does need is something that is equivelent to unixes

RE: Managing versions of Apache Jakarta software

2002-03-29 Thread Danny Angus
So where does that leave us? Do you (Pete) believe that the work you're going to put into Ant2 and java versioning can address this satisfactorily in a generic way? What participation would it require from sub-projects wanting to adopt it? Should, perhaps, Jakarta be using our hard fought

Re: Comments on the commons-logging API

2002-03-29 Thread Ceki Gülcü
At 18:28 28.03.2002 -0800, you wrote: god no. The avalon group was already using a facade logger long before commons was for much the same reason commons adopted one. Is Avalon still using its own facade logger or changed to commons-logging? I'm just wondering: How many Jakarta projects use

RE: subproject layout conventions

2002-03-29 Thread Berin Loritsch
-Original Message- From: Pier Fumagalli [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, March 28, 2002 5:12 PM To: Jakarta General List Subject: Re: subproject layout conventions Berin Loritsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Attached is a small screenshot of the maven page with a

Re: subproject layout conventions

2002-03-29 Thread Ted Husted
Leo Simons wrote: I very much agree. I was under the impression though that at this point, there are some designers available somewhere. It would be good if they would explain which things would be good to change so we can put that into the system. There is no paid staff, and AFAIK, no

Re: Comments on the commons-logging API

2002-03-29 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr.
On 3/28/02 5:14 PM, Ceki Gülcü [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Possible but I would not be that sure. We will have very strong new features in log4j 1.3 (the release after 1.2) which will leave JDK 1.4 logging even further behind. Just as importantly, log4j documentation is going to get a

Re: subproject layout conventions

2002-03-29 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr.
On 3/29/02 8:26 AM, Berin Loritsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: Pier Fumagalli [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, March 28, 2002 5:12 PM To: Jakarta General List Subject: Re: subproject layout conventions Berin Loritsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

RE: Managing versions of Apache Jakarta software

2002-03-29 Thread Danny Angus
There was a discussion about an enterprise distribution of jakarta and other open-source java technologies some time back on this list that resulted in starting oed project on SourceForge [which is pretty much dead at the moment :-( ]. Which may suggest that there's more to solving this

Re: subproject layout conventions

2002-03-29 Thread Leo Simons
There is no paid staff, and AFAIK, no designers who are also committers. The maven layout looks like it has been designed by a designer. except that the website is not only for geeks. It's also for people that make decisions and have money. Says who? Me. I wan't to use jakarta stuff

RE: Comments on the commons-logging API

2002-03-29 Thread Danny Angus
Now that you can (well, soon) legally implement JSR47's, you might was well support their interfaces and semantics, and then 'embrace and extend'. Just do the JSR47 stuff better :) Could Log4J now become an RI of JSR47 ? (I'm still not completely clear about all this..) -- To

Re: Comments on the commons-logging API

2002-03-29 Thread Peter Donald
On Sat, 30 Mar 2002 02:36, Danny Angus wrote: Now that you can (well, soon) legally implement JSR47's, you might was well support their interfaces and semantics, and then 'embrace and extend'. Just do the JSR47 stuff better :) Could Log4J now become an RI of JSR47 ? (I'm still not

Re: Comments on the commons-logging API

2002-03-29 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr.
On 3/29/02 10:36 AM, Danny Angus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now that you can (well, soon) legally implement JSR47's, you might was well support their interfaces and semantics, and then 'embrace and extend'. Just do the JSR47 stuff better :) Could Log4J now become an RI of JSR47 ? (I'm

Re: Comments on the commons-logging API

2002-03-29 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr.
On 3/29/02 10:40 AM, Peter Donald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 30 Mar 2002 02:36, Danny Angus wrote: Now that you can (well, soon) legally implement JSR47's, you might was well support their interfaces and semantics, and then 'embrace and extend'. Just do the JSR47 stuff better :)

RE: subproject layout conventions

2002-03-29 Thread Berin Loritsch
-Original Message- From: Geir Magnusson Jr. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On 3/29/02 8:26 AM, Berin Loritsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: Pier Fumagalli [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Berin Loritsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Attached is a small

Re: Comments on the commons-logging API

2002-03-29 Thread Peter Donald
On Sat, 30 Mar 2002 02:48, Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: On 3/29/02 10:40 AM, Peter Donald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 30 Mar 2002 02:36, Danny Angus wrote: Now that you can (well, soon) legally implement JSR47's, you might was well support their interfaces and semantics, and then

RE: Managing versions of Apache Jakarta software

2002-03-29 Thread ajack
There was a discussion about an enterprise distribution of jakarta and other open-source java technologies some time back on this list that resulted in starting oed project on SourceForge [which is pretty much dead at the moment :-( ]. Which may

Re: Managing versions of Apache Jakarta software

2002-03-29 Thread Andrus Adamchik
Danny Angus wrote: There was a discussion about an enterprise distribution of jakarta and other open-source java technologies some time back on this list that resulted in starting oed project on SourceForge [which is pretty much dead at the moment :-( ]. Which may suggest that there's more

RE: Managing versions of Apache Jakarta software

2002-03-29 Thread Danny Angus
It would be a real shame for the lack of an total automated solution to lead to the lack of a simple manual solution. If administrators can manually check the explicit version of a JAR, rather than comparing sizes/datestamps, that would be a major improvement over today. Correctly version

Re: Comments on the commons-logging API

2002-03-29 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr.
On 3/29/02 11:05 AM, Peter Donald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 30 Mar 2002 02:48, Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: On 3/29/02 10:40 AM, Peter Donald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 30 Mar 2002 02:36, Danny Angus wrote: Now that you can (well, soon) legally implement JSR47's, you might was

Re: subproject layout conventions

2002-03-29 Thread Ted Husted
Leo Simons wrote: As long as we agree that nothing should get into the way of site functionality (and we do), why would you oppose a site that also is easy to navigate and looks good? The only thing I oppose is the idea something being set in stone or approved by some mythical designer.

Re: Managing versions of Apache Jakarta software

2002-03-29 Thread Guillaume Rousse
Ainsi parlait Andrus Adamchik : [..] Task of a package creator is harder. (Here is a link with detailed information : http://www.rpm.org/max-rpm/ ). In short (in reality it is rather hard) package creators need to get sources, convert configure-make-make install into a special RPM spec for a

Re: Managing versions of Apache Jakarta software

2002-03-29 Thread Andrus Adamchik
I hear you. And I think I understand pretty well ;-). Therefore I was looking at your project as an example how this should be done in Java world. Guillaume Rousse wrote: Curiously in java world, packager work is generaly is at best misunderstood, often ignored, or even seen with some

RE: Managing versions of Apache Jakarta software

2002-03-29 Thread Danny Angus
Hi, (if this is getting too OT tell me to sling my hook) I just printed and read the jdk 1.3 optional packages versioning document (again) then found this .. http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4/docs/guide/plugin/developer_guide/extensions.ht ml the section on Java Extensions Installation made

RE: Comments on the commons-logging API

2002-03-29 Thread Ceki Gülcü
At 15:36 29.03.2002 +, Danny Angus wrote: Now that you can (well, soon) legally implement JSR47's, you might was well support their interfaces and semantics, and then 'embrace and extend'. Just do the JSR47 stuff better :) Could Log4J now become an RI of JSR47 ? (I'm still not