Re: Proposal for 10.2 release schedule

[Lance J. Andersen]

Daniel John Debrunner wrote: Andrew McIntyre wrote: Call in the lawyers: From JSPA - 2.0.1 10 January 2005 [1], which presumably the ASF board has executed, being a JCP Member (they've even got quotes from Geir prominently featured on their "about JCP 2.6 page" [2]): 5.B. License to Create Independent Implementations. Dumb question, is Derby: - creating an independent implementation of JSR221 - or is it implementing a driver that adheres to JSR221? I would say Apache Harmony (when/if they tackle Jave SE 6) would be creating an independent implementation of JSR221 and that Derby is not. You cannot have a GA version of a JDBC 4 driver until JSR 221 goes final. The Derby Embedded and Network Client drivers provide implementations of the  JDBC drivers based on JSR 221. A Java SE implementation provides the interfaces and concrete classes that are used by a JDBC driver for the given Java SE implementation. JSR 221 falls under the umbrella spec for Java SE 6.  They all go final together. Dan.