Gav.... wrote: > > From: Thorsten Scherler > > David Crossley wrote: > > > Thorsten Scherler wrote: > > > > > > > > To make the version compile you need to download > > > > the JSR 173 API from > > > > http://www.ibiblio.org/maven2/stax/stax-api/1.0/stax-api-1.0.jar > > > > and copy it to lib/api/. We cannot redistribute the API (it was once a > > > > discussion on cocoon-dev when the jcr got introduced). > > > > > > Would you please explain that further. > > > > I cannot post any citation from the mail I referred since I just saw > > that it was a private list where I read it. > > > > Bottom line of the mail was that the JSR-170 terms of license allowed by > > Sun's lawyers for the JCR specification (which includes the JCR > > interface jar) are not compatible with ASF. > > You sure about that ? I have not looked deeply into it so I apologise, but > With me being on a number of Apache Mailing Lists, JSR-170 rang a bell > When I saw it in your mail.
Wait, you are both confusing the issue. Thorsten started talking about JSR-173 then made a mistake and referred to JSR-170. Thorsten, please clearly explain. > Please take a look at :- > > http://jackrabbit.apache.org/ (Jackrabbit) > http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=170 (ASF is member of expert group) > http://www.openwfe.org/openwfe-jcr-beancoder.html (Used with Maven) > > > Futher it was pointed out that the JCR API (as interface), will either > > already be present in the J2SE engine (with or without an implementation > > from java 6 up) or must be downloaded and installed by the user (either > > directly in $JAVA_HOME/lib or into the location I pointed out before > > (whiteboard/dispatcher/lib/api)).