Did somebody update the Jakarta site directly?

2002-03-28 Thread Sam Ruby
http://www.apache.org/~rubys/updatesite.log4 Note the mod to 'whoweare.html and the errors in poi... - Sam Ruby -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: BCEL?

2002-03-28 Thread Stefan Bodewig
On 28 Mar 2002, Jason van Zyl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just looked, because I thought there was one, and there is a category for BCEL. I have created one with Pier's help just today, should have reported here, I guess ;-) Stefan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For

Re: BCEL?

2002-03-28 Thread Jason van Zyl
On Thu, 2002-03-28 at 09:00, Stefan Bodewig wrote: On 28 Mar 2002, Jason van Zyl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just looked, because I thought there was one, and there is a category for BCEL. I have created one with Pier's help just today, should have reported here, I guess ;-) :-) So

Re: subproject layout conventions

2002-03-28 Thread Jason van Zyl
On Thu, 2002-03-28 at 01:14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jason van Zyl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 28/03/2002 08:15:53 AM: On Wed, 2002-03-27 at 17:13, Leo Simons wrote: It has been brought up by many people that there is no common way of organising subproject websites. I propose we

Re: BCEL?

2002-03-28 Thread Pier Fumagalli
Jason van Zyl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2002-03-28 at 09:00, Stefan Bodewig wrote: On 28 Mar 2002, Jason van Zyl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just looked, because I thought there was one, and there is a category for BCEL. I have created one with Pier's help just today, should have

RE: subproject layout conventions

2002-03-28 Thread Jason van Zyl
On Thu, 2002-03-28 at 09:05, Berin Loritsch wrote: -Original Message- From: Leo Simons [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Wed, 2002-03-27 at 17:13, Leo Simons wrote: It has been brought up by many people that there is no common way of organising subproject websites. I

RE: subproject layout conventions

2002-03-28 Thread Berin Loritsch
-Original Message- From: Jason van Zyl [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Thu, 2002-03-28 at 09:05, Berin Loritsch wrote: I would definitely like to see a Maven like system across the projects in Jakarta--even if the main site is not altered much. It would be good to give the

RE: subproject layout conventions

2002-03-28 Thread Jason van Zyl
On Thu, 2002-03-28 at 09:53, Berin Loritsch wrote: The only thing I would want to customize are: 1) Project Logo 2) Project color-scheme No problem :-) That's it. I really don't think that is too much to ask. The layout should remain constant without a doubt. We are in agreement

RE: subproject layout conventions

2002-03-28 Thread Glenn A. McAllister
On Thu, 28 Mar 2002, Berin Loritsch wrote: Everything should definitely feel the same. However, color is a definite clue that you have changed contexts. By drilling down a Project's heirarchy, it helps to have a visual clue that you are not at the same level you used to be. Color

Re: Did somebody update the Jakarta site directly?

2002-03-28 Thread Daniel F. Savarese
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] bm.com, Sam Ruby writes: http://www.apache.org/~rubys/updatesite.log4 Note the mod to 'whoweare.html and the errors in poi... I did a fresh checkout of jakarta-site2 and edited xdocs/whoweare.xml last night, did the usual build docs/whoweare.html, and checked in

Managing versions of Apache Jakarta software

2002-03-28 Thread ajack
All, I've been lucky enough to have benefited from a lot of the excellent packages put out be this community, e.g. ANT/XERCES/LOG4J/XALAN/SOAP2.2/AXIS etc etc, and I thank you all for that. Recently however my utilization of a lot of Apache software has bitten me (commons-logging in AXIS in this

RE: Comments on the commons-logging API

2002-03-28 Thread Jeff Schnitzer
From: Morgan Delagrange [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Yes, the defining advantage to the commons-logging API that I see is that it allows users to adopt a single logging implementation, which confers real What needs to be appended to that statement is ...if everyone codes to the

RE: subproject layout conventions

2002-03-28 Thread Berin Loritsch
-Original Message- From: Leo Simons [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] another lenghty post, so I'll start with a summary: - color variations (and all other lf changes) should be part of the original look-and-feel design. Giving programmers free reign to do this spells disaster.

RE: Managing versions of Apache Jakarta software

2002-03-28 Thread Leo Simons
It would also be very nice if this were rolled into Maven :) cheers, - Leo Well, at this point Adam, we don't so much has have a written guideline for creating a Jakarta release, so adding versioning to a non-existent guidelines poses something of a challenge :O) Please please please

Re: Managing versions of Apache Jakarta software

2002-03-28 Thread Andrew C. Oliver
*gets the feeling that the project marketing campaign for Maven has begun and wonders if he bought into a time share and singed up for a free seminar by accident* Leo Simons wrote: It would also be very nice if this were rolled into Maven :) cheers, - Leo Well, at this point Adam, we don't

RE: Comments on the commons-logging API

2002-03-28 Thread costinm
On Thu, 28 Mar 2002, Jeff Schnitzer wrote: From: Morgan Delagrange [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Yes, the defining advantage to the commons-logging API that I see is that it allows users to adopt a single logging implementation, which confers real What needs to be appended to that

RE: Managing versions of Apache Jakarta software

2002-03-28 Thread ajack
I guess you folk have seen so many adhoc suggestions that you tend to attempt to form a consistent guideline out of them. I'm not convinced this particular approach has sufficient merit, or that there aren't better ones, it was just an idea I threw out based on initial findings. I am game to

RE: subproject layout conventions

2002-03-28 Thread Leo Simons
- color variations (and all other lf changes) should be part of the original look-and-feel design. Giving programmers free reign to do this spells disaster. It would be best to have the original designer of a look and feel work this out. Very strictly. :( Seriously, I

RE: Managing versions of Apache Jakarta software

2002-03-28 Thread Leo Simons
and to think I haven't even downloaded it yet! :D *gets the feeling that the project marketing campaign for Maven has begun and wonders if he bought into a time share and singed up for a free seminar by accident* Leo Simons wrote: It would also be very nice if this were rolled into

Re: Comments on the commons-logging API

2002-03-28 Thread Morgan Delagrange
- Original Message - From: Jeff Schnitzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Jakarta General List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 28, 2002 2:12 PM Subject: RE: Comments on the commons-logging API From: Morgan Delagrange [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Yes, the defining advantage to the

Re: Managing versions of Apache Jakarta software

2002-03-28 Thread Peter Donald
On Fri, 29 Mar 2002 07:49, Andrew C. Oliver wrote: *gets the feeling that the project marketing campaign for Maven has begun and wonders if he bought into a time share and singed up for a free seminar by accident* The funny thing is that some of the people marketing maven haven't even

Re: Comments on the commons-logging API

2002-03-28 Thread Ceki Gülcü
At 15:10 28.03.2002 -0600, Morgan Delagrange wrote: Where is this world where everyone uses Log4J? That world = (world - jakarta) -- Ceki My link of the month: http://java.sun.com/aboutJava/standardization/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands,

Re: Managing versions of Apache Jakarta software

2002-03-28 Thread Peter Donald
Just as a heads up. There will be something that helps you manage version information in jars in the next release (1.5). It semi-automates declaration of library name and version and it also allows the jar to declare dependencies on other libraries. It does this according the following spec.

Re: Comments on the commons-logging API

2002-03-28 Thread Morgan Delagrange
- Original Message - From: Ceki Gülcü [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Jakarta General List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 28, 2002 3:18 PM Subject: Re: Comments on the commons-logging API At 15:10 28.03.2002 -0600, Morgan Delagrange wrote: Where is this world where everyone uses

RE: subproject layout conventions

2002-03-28 Thread dion
Jason van Zyl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 29/03/2002 12:53:36 AM: On Thu, 2002-03-28 at 09:53, Berin Loritsch wrote: The only thing I would want to customize are: 1) Project Logo 2) Project color-scheme No problem :-) The only other thing I've found handy is if there's no

Re: Comments on the commons-logging API

2002-03-28 Thread Pier Fumagalli
Ceki Gülcü [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 15:10 28.03.2002 -0600, Morgan Delagrange wrote: Where is this world where everyone uses Log4J? That world = (world - jakarta) I tend to agree with Ceki! :) I never used it until I didn't move on from Jakarta and went to do some real work for my

Re: Comments on the commons-logging API

2002-03-28 Thread Ceki Gülcü
At 15:30 28.03.2002 -0600, Morgan Delagrange wrote: I am pro-Log4J. I wish I lived in that Log4J-only world (until/unless something better came along). Generally, commons-logging neither encourages nor discourages use of Log4J. However, I would argue that it _does_ encourage Log4J a bit by

Re: subproject layout conventions

2002-03-28 Thread Pier Fumagalli
Berin Loritsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Attached is a small screenshot of the maven page with a white header. Aaah WINXPCRAP! :) Pier -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Managing versions of Apache Jakarta software

2002-03-28 Thread Sam Ruby
Peter Donald wrote: On Fri, 29 Mar 2002 07:49, Andrew C. Oliver wrote: *gets the feeling that the project marketing campaign for Maven has begun and wonders if he bought into a time share and singed up for a free seminar by accident* The funny thing is that some of the people marketing maven

Re: Comments on the commons-logging API

2002-03-28 Thread Morgan Delagrange
- Original Message - From: Ceki Gülcü [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Jakarta General List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 28, 2002 4:14 PM Subject: Re: Comments on the commons-logging API At 15:30 28.03.2002 -0600, Morgan Delagrange wrote: I am pro-Log4J. I wish I lived in that

RE: Managing versions of Apache Jakarta software

2002-03-28 Thread Danny Angus
Pete Donald wrote: Anyways if there is a demand for this I can get it into the ant1.5 codebase earlier. I think what there ought to be a demand for is a Jakarta wide code of practice for declaring versions and dependancies, even if its only in documentation. I guess this just adds a

Re: Comments on the commons-logging API

2002-03-28 Thread costinm
On Thu, 28 Mar 2002, Ceki Gülcü wrote: True. It does encourage it, but only initially. On the long run, however, people will run into problems with their logging (as is happening now). They will say this commons-logging+log4j stuff is too complicated, we'll switch to JDK 1.4 logging, at

RE: Comments on the commons-logging API

2002-03-28 Thread Paulo Gaspar
Ceki, What about making clear that commons-logging is only supposed to be used by other components so that the application developer picks the logging API that suits him best? Do you really believe that all application developers will use Log4J? Or do you want to force them into doing that?

Re: Comments on the commons-logging API

2002-03-28 Thread Ceki Gülcü
At 16:33 28.03.2002 -0600, you wrote: Sun's me-too strategy is bound to fail. The question is whether the bigger jakarta community is going to help us defeat JSR47 or stand in the way. That's a bit harsh, isn't it? Hmm, maybe it is. What I am trying to say is that I would have liked to

Re: Comments on the commons-logging API

2002-03-28 Thread costinm
On Fri, 29 Mar 2002, Ceki Gülcü wrote: At 16:33 28.03.2002 -0600, you wrote: Sun's me-too strategy is bound to fail. The question is whether the bigger jakarta community is going to help us defeat JSR47 or stand in the way. That's a bit harsh, isn't it? Hmm, maybe it is. What I

Re: Comments on the commons-logging API

2002-03-28 Thread Ceki Gülcü
Costin, I think you have done a pretty good job on the log4j wrapper. However, I am pretty stretched out as it is, so I can't really help with something I don't particularly like. Besides, if people find commons-logging really useful they will build a community around it. What I say or think

RE: Comments on the commons-logging API

2002-03-28 Thread Ceki Gülcü
At 00:57 29.03.2002 +0100, Paulo Gaspar wrote: Ceki, What about making clear that commons-logging is only supposed to be used by other components so that the application developer picks the logging API that suits him best? That seems to be the intent of commons-logging. I have pointed out the

RE: Comments on the commons-logging API

2002-03-28 Thread Scott Sanders
-Original Message- From: Ceki Gülcü [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] I never suspected (nor suggested) that commons-logging effort was dishonorable in any way. My contention is that it will make life harder not easier. Nothing more, nothing less. I think it may make life harder for

Re: Comments on the commons-logging API

2002-03-28 Thread Peter Donald
On Fri, 29 Mar 2002 12:13, Scott Sanders wrote: -Original Message- From: Ceki Glc [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] I never suspected (nor suggested) that commons-logging effort was dishonorable in any way. My contention is that it will make life harder not easier. Nothing more,

Re: Comments on the commons-logging API

2002-03-28 Thread Peter Donald
On Fri, 29 Mar 2002 12:38, Ceki Gülcü wrote: 1) logging calls are made thousands of times so the indirection through an equalizer API (like commons-logging) has a performance impact Not in modern JVMs (read most almost all jdk1.3 impls). As long as the underlying indirection (ie between

Re: Comments on the commons-logging API

2002-03-28 Thread Vladimir Bossicard
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 this common-logging package? What's

RE: Managing versions of Apache Jakarta software

2002-03-28 Thread ajack
Sam Ruby [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: I very much like xml-commons-which. http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/xml-commons/java/src/org/apache/env/ It seems very useful, and I've only view it briefly [so I am no expert] but wouldn't it be better if classes/packages known or

Re: Comments on the commons-logging API

2002-03-28 Thread costinm
On Fri, 29 Mar 2002, Ceki Gülcü wrote: The problem with logging is different because: 1) logging calls are made thousands of times so the indirection through an equalizer API (like commons-logging) has a performance impact Only for the logger that do not implement the interface :-) If

RE: subproject layout conventions

2002-03-28 Thread Leo Simons
Hey, I'm a programmer myself ;) as a reassurance: the changes this discussion talks about will happen in jakarta-site2, and will consist of backwards-compatible changes to site.xsl and site.vsl. Projects that depend on jakarta-site2 will change to the new look and feel automatically. For