Hi all, Historically due to legal restrictions mainly, we created a bunch of spec jars for all APIs from almost the beginning of Java EE.
Now that Jakarta is in Eclipse, I don't think there are restrictions to prevent us from using theM. I can think of a few exceptions - activation and mail because API/IMPL are mixed - same for Faces (we use spec and impl from MyFaces). I know we have some minor add-ons like a service locator for OSGi. Do we still need all of this? Who is maintaining that and the features XML file when they exist? >From my window, except the few exceptions, we can terminate the spec jars and only maintain what we have if needed but encourage Apache projects to rely on Eclipse APIs instead. What do you think? Did I miss something? -- Jean-Louis Monteiro http://twitter.com/jlouismonteiro http://www.tomitribe.com
