At 02:53 PM 5/30/01 +0200, Kasper Nielsen wrote:
>2.
>whats up with excalibur most of the classes looks like something that ought
>to live in Apache Commons.
>when I read 'Secondly, there is Excalibur, a collection of often-needed
>reusable components' on the main page.
>I think of components that implements various of the framework interfaces,
>but most of the classes are util classes that doesn't depend on
>org.apache.avalon.framework.
right. Commons was created out of arrogance and pride. Avalon existed a
while before and encompassed it's charter (to share components between
apache projects). Some of the members did not like the Avalon name and thus
wanted to create their own project. Ironically they never ended up
contributing anything to commons either.
Ironically besides Craig/Struts the vast majority of work has not been (and
will not likely be) contributed by Apache members but is got from outside
with the a carrot dangled in front of contributors face ;)
Cheers,
Pete
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