On Oct 18, 2010, at 6:55 PM, Rex Wang wrote:

> Hi devs,
> 
> Tomcat community plans to release their taglibs implementation in next 2 or 3 
> weeks. I opened an issue report in their bugzilla to persuade them bundle-ify 
> their jars (https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=50064).
> 
> From our experience, we bundled the spec api and impl in to one bundle, so I 
> provided a patch for them based on this approach. However, Jeremy asked me if 
> we can provide the patch to bundle-ify the spec jar and impl jar separately. 
> I am fine with that. But before making such patch, I want to confirm that, is 
> there any problem to use 2 separate bundles instead of one integrated bundle? 
> I remember we have to make javamail as a single bundle before..

That's because the javamail spec was written before sun figured out how to 
separate the spec and implementation so there's a lot of implementation in the 
spec classes, and sun's javamail comes as one jar.  We don't do that with any 
other specs or implementations.

thanks
david jencks

> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> -- 
> Lei Wang (Rex)
> rwonly AT apache.org

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