Didn't want to feel the trolls but you say too wrong statements we
shouldn't let be public without corrections in this last one

2016-07-20 16:29 GMT+02:00 Werner Keil <[email protected]>:

> Why that's not true. JPA historically has more ties to TopLink including
> the RI now at EclipseLink I also said that earlier.
> You said Hibernate became a de-facto blueprint. Which is not the case, it
> may have become a bit more popular for various reasons (Spring supporting
> it, then major competitor Red Hat buying its team and taking over
> development) but it was never a 1:1 blue print or starting point for an
> Oracle-led JSR.
>
> Structurally maybe JSR 330 is closest to what was and still is at Google
> Guice. See https://github.com/google/guice/wiki/JSR330, though JavaDoc
> suggests they're also not 1:1 copies.
>
> After seemingly panic that Tamaya could become a RI for a future spec (and
> as of now it looks like the best option, take Pluto and others in the past)
> you suddenly pulled out the "dead" Geronimo card.
>

Geronimo is NOT dead, this clearly means you don't know what G is. The
server gets only very low activity but other projects are quite active for
the whole ASF ecosystem.


> A few patches here and there seem to exist
> http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/geronimo/ but not a single release since
> 2013,
> sorry, but that's as dead as it can be. Tomitribe works a lot on TomEE
> right now in the EE space the de facto only real place of activity at
> Apache other than e.g. Pluto (following Portlet 3, but it'll run on any
> Tomcat or TomEE container, no need for Geronimo there)
>
>
That's an assumption as well


> Geronimo makes no effort for Java EE 7 compatibility for "religious" or
> other ideological reasons I know from the EC discussions or those in the EE
> umbrella EGs. The lack of activity also would not qualify it for EE 7
> compliance, so it's dead you can't ignore that.
>
>
Why do you speak of EE there, what's the link you do with Tamaya?


> With initial contributions sometimes based on an entire projects or parts
> of it JSR 354 is also not JodaMoney, though Stephen probably would have
> hoped for that. Nevertheless it's incompatible parallel final structures
> and missing API (BigMoney vs. Money no common denominator like TemporalUnit
> or TemporalAmount were created behind 310) and total lack of conversion or
> an SPI just disqualify it for a standard. And you see the extension points
> are what's used of JSR 354 ever since it went Public Draft.

Cheers,
> Werner
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 4:06 PM, Mark Struberg <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> > This now seems to directly contradict to what you said multiple times
> > before in this thread.
> >
> > Quoting mails from you :
> > "A JSR is rarely just a single framework or project only changing its
> > package name. JSR 363 was probably one of the few exceptions“
> > "Hibernate vs. JPA is also an interesting read …“
> > You literally mentioned dozen examples where open source projects did
> > _not_ become a JSR 1:1 and don’t care about backwards compatibility with
> > existing solutions.
> >
> > >
> > > The other points are valid but everyone still just keeps talking around
> > > "Yes we need an SPI" nobody so far talked about what it may contain or
> > what
> > > could be added/removed.
> >
> > Even my initial mail DID contain exactly that. As did dozen subsequent
> > posts…
> >
> > LieGrue,
> > strub
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > > Am 20.07.2016 um 15:48 schrieb Werner Keil <[email protected]>:
> > >
> > > You asked about a possible JSR "not bothering about existing stuff" and
> > > based on what a vast majority of EC members agree on I told you that's
> > not
> > > the case. Question answered.
> > >
> > > Plus popular examples where existing open source projects ended up as
> 90%
> > > blueprint for a JSR/JDK part like
> > > https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/time/Duration.html
> > > based on
> > > http://www.joda.org/joda-time/apidocs/org/joda/time/Duration.html
> > >
> > > Ok there's also another Duration class added with JavaFX, but let's not
> > go
> > > there;-)
> > >
> > >
> > > The other points are valid but everyone still just keeps talking around
> > > "Yes we need an SPI" nobody so far talked about what it may contain or
> > what
> > > could be added/removed.
> > >
> > > Werner
> > >
> > >
> > > On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 3:39 PM, Mark Struberg
> <[email protected]
> > >
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > >> Why do none of your mails seem to direcly reply to the question asked
> in
> > >> the mail before?
> > >> Most of them seem totally out of context to me.
> > >> Or is it just me who feels offended by that?
> > >>
> > >> LieGrue,
> > >> strub
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>> Am 20.07.2016 um 15:06 schrieb Werner Keil <[email protected]>:
> > >>>
> > >>> Not exactly, because it's a broad consensus among JCP EC members (I
> am
> > >> just
> > >>> one Individual) that an idea should get the "reality check" in most
> > cases
> > >>> via an established Open Source project.
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>> So while the codebase of a new JSR (see 375) would normally be a
> green
> > >>> field contribution from scratch, if EG members did a lot in an
> existing
> > >>> open source project, then there are often significant similarities
> with
> > >>> those projects.
> > >>>
> > >>> JSR 354 was started by Victor by more or less accepting JodaTime as a
> > >>> template. A few types remained almost unchanged (and everyone
> > especially
> > >>> Stephen is mentioned as authors) while others were refactored,
> removed
> > or
> > >>> new ones added. java.time although it is highly inspired by JodaTime
> on
> > >> the
> > >>> "developer facing front" with types like Duration, LocalDate, etc.
> did
> > >> get
> > >>> an "API/SPI in a closet" mostly thanks to Roger Riggs by Oracle. The
> > >> names
> > >>> changed significantly, the term "Temporal*" was only introduced at a
> > >>> relatively late stage. IMHO the biggest design mistake in the API is
> to
> > >>> directly reference the concrete implementation Duration in
> > >>>
> > >>
> >
> https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/time/temporal/TemporalUnit.html
> > >> .
> > >>> There is no logical reason why not to use the "API" element
> > >> TemporalAmount
> > >>> here and call the damn thing "getAmount()" or similar. Baking the RI
> > into
> > >>> an API is a no-go. You won't see this in any other JSR I reviewed or
> > >> voted
> > >>> on. Of course it was tightly embedded into OpenJDK and Stephen
> himself
> > >>> claims there will never be a need for an independent implementation,
> > but
> > >>> then why not stop the JSR and just turn it into a JEP that also
> > existed.
> > >> It
> > >>> was silly and unfortunate in this case, but just because something is
> > in
> > >>> the JDK doen't mean it has to be a bad or useless API, take
> Collections
> > >> for
> > >>> example. There's an independent implementation of it now at Eclipse
> by
> > >>> Goldman Sachs.
> > >>>
> > >>> JSR 354 may not have a full implementation yet, but large players
> like
> > >>> Zalando created exchange rate providers and extended it with Jackson
> > >>> Binding or Bean Validation support, so I guess the extension
> mechanisms
> > >>> created there worked;-)
> > >>>
> > >>> JSR 275 was an interesting case because Open Geospatial Consortium
> did
> > >> not
> > >>> bother that it was stopped. It's part of another standard GeoAPI by
> OGC
> > >>> till a new version replaces it with 363. It is almost Final, but I
> > guess
> > >>> the OGC wants to be on the safe side and wait till 1.0 is really out
> > this
> > >>> time?;-)
> > >>>
> > >>> Werner
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>> On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 2:47 PM, Mark Struberg
> > <[email protected]
> > >>>
> > >>> wrote:
> > >>>
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>> Am 20.07.2016 um 13:10 schrieb Werner Keil <[email protected]
> >:
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>> That's where I suggested, that the minimum an SPI must provide is
> the
> > >>>>> equivalent to PropertySource and maybe PropertySourceProvider.
> > Allowing
> > >>>>> those extensions to still work with a future design.
> > >>>>
> > >>>> Yes, there is finally something we agree on ;)
> > >>>>
> > >>>> I probably do care less about existing extensions than you. Any new
> > JSR
> > >>>> imo doens’t need to bother about existing stuff. I think we agree on
> > >> this
> > >>>> part as well, right?
> > >>>>
> > >>>> The main reason why I think we need an SPI is because the
> application
> > >>>> otherwise has no way to plug in the stuff they need.
> > >>>>
> > >>>> That would be like bean-validation without custom
> > >>>> Constraint+ConstraintValidator. Such a spec would not be worth the
> > >> energy
> > >>>> imo.
> > >>>>
> > >>>> LieGrue,
> > >>>> strub
> > >>
> > >>
> >
> >
>

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