Vincent and all, This is great news. Cactus joins the august company of Struts, Slide, etc. I think we should change the package names for the 1.2 release. I would like to offer a "compatibility" option, but I cannot think of a good way to do so. Obviously people can keep using both the 1.2 JAR and the 1.1 JAR since they won't conflict with each other. So maybe that's good enough... Cheers, nick -----Original Message----- From: Vincent Massol [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, September 14, 2001 8:54 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [announcement] Cactus has been accepted as a Jakarta top level project Some good news for Cactus users ! Cactus has been accepted as a top level project. It will no longer be a sub project of Jakarta-Commons but will be a standalone project, at the same level as Tomcat, Ant, Struts, Velocity, ... As you may have read on this list, I had announced a few weeks ago that Cactus 1.2 would be delivered around the 15th of September (that's tomorrow). In view of this major event, I would like to postpone the 1.2 release by a few days (possibly a week), so that we have enough time to make the move to Cactus' new location. All this should be very good news for everybody as it means Cactus is being recognized as a mature framework. It also means Cactus will get more visibility and thus more help to continue its development. However, there is one drawback : the package names will have to change from "org.apache.commons.cactus" to "org.apache.cactus". I have sent last week a mail asking if that would cause trouble to Cactus users. I've received only 2 answers saying it was ok. I really think this is a change that must be done ASAP, which is why I prefer to delay the Cactus 1.2 release and incorporate this change within this release. However, I am still open to suggestions (provided they come fast !). Thanks -Vincent Massol
