Nick Stuart wrote:
Speaking of which...who orignally started the castor project? I know you (bruce) obvisouly had a large part in it, but who else was on the team? Keith perhaps?
Assaf Arkin and myself are the original authors, but that's almost a moot point now as the project is really about all the people who contributed, and not who wrote the first lines of code. Since you asked, however, we started Castor back in 1999! Assaf started Castor JDO and I started Castor XML. We've had numerous contributions along the way (and thanks to all those who have contributed!).
Thomas Yip took over as the Castor JDO lead for a couple years, before Bruce took over for Thomas back in 2002 after Thomas could no longer contribute to the project on a regular basis. I think Bruce has now held the JDO lead position longest and was really the first non-Intalio person to step up and take charge of rescueing the Castor JDO project when there was very little attention being paid to it.
Werner Guttmann has been simply amazing in his efforts to get Castor JDO and the project in general back on track. I owe him a lot of personal thanks for taking such an interest in the project and really becoming a major driving force, especially as Bruce has been busy with writing his book. Castor is very near and dear to my heart and I simply cannot thank Werner and Bruce enough for their efforts.
Werner has really resurrected the team spirit on Castor...I've enjoyed (and hope to continue to) seeing all the communication taking place in the bug reports and mailing lists.
I've been the Castor XML lead since the beginning. Arnaud Blandin who was an employee of mine for a couple years was a major contributor on the XML side of the project for a couple years from about 2001-2003, but really hasn't been able to contribute much since (due to professional and personal time constraints, which I do understand since we work for the same company). I know he'd love to get back at it, but right now it doesn't look like it'll be happening any time soon. I keep bugging him about it, we'll see though. We've had a number of contributors on the XML side, such as Sebastien Gignoux, Andrew Fawcett, Remy Maucherat, and really too many to list here. Just as a note, Andrew Fawcett is the "father" of the "type-centric" approach to XML data binding. He was the first one to suggest this approach to me and he contributed all the initial code for it. This approach was later adopted by JAXB. Initially Castor XML only supported element centric approach (though with a lot more flexibility) as specified in the original JSR 31.
My thanks to all who have contributed since the project was started, and I hope the project continues to grow as it has over the last couple of months.
Cheers,
--Keith
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