A small clarification on the name. See the comments inside. On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 10:42 AM, Saliya Ekanayake <esal...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Just a small note on the name "Thomara": > > In Sinhala it denotes a weapon used by King's guards in the past. The shape > is similar to a spear (at the moment I am unable to find an image in the > Internet). We chose the name since it relates with security and it can be > pronounced with less effort. The "tho" is pronounced as in "thought", "ma" > is pronounced as in "customer", and "ra" is pronounced similar to "ma". The last two letters, i.e. "ra" is pronounced similar to the pronunciation of "ma" except for the "m" being replaced by "r". Thanks, Saliya > > > We initially had the idea of naming it "Paliha", which stands for shield in > Sinhala. The only reason for not taking it was the feeling that it will be > bit hard to pronounce. If others find that this is not the case, then we > will be happy to consider changing it to "Paliha" as well. > > Thanks, > Saliya > > > On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 9:58 PM, Sanjiva Weerawarana < > sanj...@opensource.lk> wrote: > >> David, anyone can use Axiom as an efficient XML Infoset representation. >> Thomara is an implementation of XML Encryption and XML Signature on top of >> that representation + XML Canonicalization. >> >> Only a (small) subset of people who use Axiom would need this stuff - >> anyone using WS-Security etc. obviously does. There is no intrinsic >> connection to Axiom to say that it should be in the Axiom subproject of >> commons. >> >> On your concern of having small projects with a small community, that's >> *exactly* why we created commons-dev to be a common dev list for all these >> small projects. They're small subprojects because they're independent / >> orthogonal components which can be combined as desired. >> >> I have no objection to considering a move of Axiom to TLP, but that has >> nothing to do with this project. Orthogonal conversation; let's do it >> separately. >> >> AFAIK thomara has no meaning in Sinhalese but prolly my poor knowledge of >> Sinhala will be exposed by that statement ;-). >> >> Sanjiva. >> >> >> David Illsley wrote: >> >>> Thanks for the information. I'm generally unconvinced by the argument >>> that having an optional 100KB axiom-xmlsecurity module counts as >>> 'bloat'. To me it's better for users for it to be part of Axiom >>> because information about this additional functionality that Axiom >>> users may wish to use will be more obvious. From an Apache >>> perspective, I think having it part of Axiom would have a couple of >>> advantages... >>> 1. Fewer dependency projects which need to be lined up for new >>> releases of e.f. Axis2/Rampart2 >>> 2. Giving it a separate name encourages people to think of it as >>> something separate and owned by a separate community which, given the >>> size of the codebase seems unnecessary. I think it does properly >>> belong as part of the Axiom community >>> >>> David >>> >>> P.S. What does 'thomara' mean and have you done the appropriate name >>> checks? >>> >> >> >> -- >> Sanjiva Weerawarana, Ph.D. >> Founder & Director; Lanka Software Foundation; http://www.opensource.lk/ >> Founder, Chairman & CEO; WSO2, Inc.; http://www.wso2.com/ >> Member; Apache Software Foundation; http://www.apache.org/ >> Visiting Lecturer; University of Moratuwa; http://www.cse.mrt.ac.lk/ >> >> Blog: http://sanjiva.weerawarana.org/ >> > > > > -- > Saliya Ekanayake > http://www.esaliya.blogspot.com > http://www.esaliya.wordpress.com > -- Saliya Ekanayake http://www.esaliya.blogspot.com http://www.esaliya.wordpress.com
