--- John McNally <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> DBCP has 5 open bugs.  I recently was looking at 18905 and modified some
> test code so that it is possible to reproduce.  I did not get to the
> solution, so the test is not activated.
> 
> It looks like 20649, could be resolved in some fashion by removing the
> use of AbandonedObjectPool.  Getting rid of this code has already been
> proposed and agreed upon, if someone wants to submit a patch to do so.
> But the bug is only 2 weeks old, I don't think it can be declared as
> suffering from neglect.
> 
> I am the primary developer of the jdbc2pool and cpdsadapter packages.  I
> do not see any reason to merge the code into one package with the rest
> of dbcp.  They seem packaged appropriately to me.  The main thing that
> needs to be done here is to rename the "jdbc2" in the names to something
> else.  I don't know what is a better name, but we should not release
> with "jdbc" in the class or package names.
> 
> If anyone wants to become an active developer on dbcp, they are welcome,
> but I think having at least one patch submitted before people start
> calling for a vote on new committers should be a minimum.  Remember that
> once you are a committer on dbcp, you too get to subscribe to the deluge
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> email a month that might be related to a problem or question on dbcp.

Normally I would agree with this but there isn't anyone around to apply
patches.  DBCP needs new developers and I'm delighted that several
existing Apache folks have volunteered.  As for the "deluge" of
commons-dev mail, it has been suggested that DBCP move to db-commons which
would alleviate that problem.

David

> 
> john mcnally
> 
> On Sun, 2003-06-22 at 19:33, David Graham wrote:
> > DBCP is very inactive.  Struts dropped it from the distribution due to
> the 
> > lack of development support.
> > 
> > David
> > 
> > >Is anyone working on DBCP or planning another release anytime soon?
> It's 
> > >been almost a year, and the project seems pretty inactive.
> > >
> > >I was trying to integrate DBCP into James this weekend to replace my 
> > >home-rolled DB connection, and after the fact realized that DBCP
> cannot 
> > >handle database restarts as without a validate SQL statement, DBCP
> doesn't 
> > >realize connections are corrupt and keeps putting them back in the
> pool.
> > >
> > >Would anyone be interested in me supplying some patches to do some
> extra 
> > >checking, get some examples and documentation straight (I found 3 or
> 4 
> > >different "basic" examples, none of which worked for me)?  Are other
> Apache 
> > >projects using DBCP at this point, and is it reasonable to remove
> methods 
> > >that have not been implemented (like setLoginTimeout())?
> > >
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