Re: Propose a new commons-uri package

[Ryan Hoegg]

The decision to require JDK 1.4 for HttpClient is not trivial. In XML-RPC, we are still debating whether to abandon 1.1 and require 1.2+. We use HttpClient in our library.

Furthermore, the idea is to share the URI functionality among Apache projects. Other projects that use URI functionality include Xerces, maybe Xalan, Slide, James?, Cactus, and Tomcat. (That's just off the top of my head).

Brett Knights wrote:

Would the intention of this be to reproduce the functionality of
java.net.URI
as found in J2SE 1.4?

java.net.URI seems quite complete.

If so how many people can't make the switch to 1.4? I am not using
1.4.x in producion yet but I have been doing all my development with
1.4.1 so at this point it is just a matter of mustering the energy for
installing jdk's and running tests etc.



----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeffrey Dever" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Commons HttpClient Project"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, February 07, 2003 9:41 AM
Subject: Propose a new commons-uri package

This is just a draft regarding factoring out the URI based code in
HttpClient into its own dedicated package. Please comment.

(0) rationale

The concept of a URI is prevelent in networking. A specific form of
URI, a URL is used ubiquitously across the internet. Currently
HttpClient houses the URI and URL based classes, but these have much
broader use. This common functionality should be housed in its own
dedicated, small, reusable package. Any projects that require URI,

URL

or URN functionality can do so by importing a small, focused

package,

commons-uri.jar.

(1) scope of the package

The package shall provide a complete java implementation of RFC2396.
This includes the URI as well as URL and URN classes and utilities.
The implementation will be fully character set aware.

(1.5) interaction with other packages

Have no dependancies beyond the standard java packages.

*

(2) identify the initial source for the packages

Various classes in common from from Commons HttpClient Jakarta

Slide.

(2.1) identify the base name for the package

org.apache.commons.uri

(2.2) identify the coding conventions for this package

The code uses the conventions from the Jakarta Commons.

(2.1) Identify the initial file structure

jakarta-commons/org/apache/commons/uri

uri/
URI.java
URIUtil.java
URIException.java
url/
HttpsURL.java
HttpURL.java
urn/

(3) identify any Jakarta-Commons resources to be created

(3.1) mailing list

[EMAIL PROTECTED]

(3.2) CVS repositories

jakarta-commons/uri

(3.3) Bugzilla

The package should be listed as the uri component under the
Jakarta-Commons Bugzilla entry.

(4) identify the initial set of committers to be listed in the

Status File.

Jeff Dever (jsdever)
Sung-Gu Park (jericho)
others?

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