Over in Avalon land, we are wanting to coordinate the releases of the Avalon technologies. We recently released LogKit 1.2 (available at http://avalon.apache.org/bindownload.cgi), and very soon we will be releasing Framework 4.1.4.
Next on the agenda is the Excalibur stuff. We will focus primarily on the suite of components used for the ECM which Cocoon uses, and then expand to include all the Avalon components that Cocoon uses. THe latest stuff and all new releases should be guaranteed to work against the latest and greatest released products (at least that is the plan). From what I can gather, Cocoon uses all of these components from Avalon: CLI Collections Concurrent i18n instrument instrument-manager instrument-manager-interfaces IO Logger Monitor Naming Pool SourceResolve Store XMLUtil Cornerstone Cornerstone-excalibur-thread Cornerstone-excalibur-threadcontext DataSource AltRMI AltRMI Registry AltRMI Server (IMpl/Interfaces) Component (AKA ECM) I would like to provide a heads up on Collections and Concurrent. They are considered deprecated, and are only included for backwards compatibility. They will no longer be maintained. They are superceded by the much better and more robust libraries of Commons Collections and Doug Lea's concurrency utils. I would highly recommend updating the Cocoon code base with those libraries--although you should include the old excalibur JARs for backwards compatibility with your clients. On the same token, we are looking into officially deprecating Excalibur CLI in favor of COmmons CLI. THere is no official word on that yet, but the general trend is that the Avalon project only wants to host components that are truly Avalon components, and not merely APIs or libraries. Commons is a much better place for library code. That said, I personally would like to understand how Cocoon is using the Cornerstone code. We really aren't ready to get to the Cornerstone code for a little while yet, so I would like to know what part of it is being used. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
