Ok, Thanks for the offer of help, Simon. I do think we can even increase our standpoint of _the_ JSF community here at Apache with adding the ADF Faces sourcebase.
we really ought to wait for the snapshot now. I think we all expect that ADF Faces would be a good adition to the MyFaces source-base. Let's wait for the snapshot to really check it out, and then decide on how to move forward. regards, Martin On 12/31/05, Simon Kitching <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All, > > I just wanted to say that however it works out, I'm very happy to see > Oracle looking at releasing the source to the ADF library. > > When Obsidium were starting the current JSF-based project I looked > around for JSF libraries and came across the ADF stuff. It has many > excellent-looking components that aren't available elsewhere. It was > with great disappointment that I finally located the license terms, and > realised that ADF wasn't an option for our project. > > I'm also sure that Oracle has many talented developers and that there > are many ideas in ADF that can be used to improve the Tomahawk components. > > > Having said that, the issues being discussed about community and > integration into MyFaces are important. Having ADF available as open > source is definitely a benefit to the world. Whether having it as part > of MyFaces is good or bad depends upon whether a good team spirit and > diverse developer base can be created. I have seen cases before where a > group of developers are all co-located, and design decisions are clearly > being made "off-line"; that's not good for community. In addition, > Apache now has a number of projects which have effectively "died", which > reflects poorly on Apache; to avoid this it's necessary to get a diverse > group of people active on a project. In the end, while I would really > *like* to see ADF as part of the MyFaces project we might keep in mind > the idea that it doesn't *have* to be an Apache project in order to be > open source. And MyFaces can (and does) work together with other > non-Apache open source projects. ADF should become part of MyFaces only > if the technical and social fit is right. > > I personally am looking forward to seeing the ADF source, and > contributing what time I can to the ADF/MyFaces integration. That will > be on my own time, though, so no promises how many hours that will be.. > > > Regards, > > Simon > -- http://www.irian.at Your JSF powerhouse - JSF Consulting, Development and Courses in English and German Professional Support for Apache MyFaces
