> Just as an idea: Have you looked at Avalon Excalibur's caching package? > Pretty good stuff. > > By the way: What's the current agreement whether to use Avalon or not? I > mean, we're already using LogKit (which is cool). On the other side, if > we moved to the newer org.apache.avalon.framework.logger.Logger > interface we would be more Logging framework independent (which was > something a few people wanted). And considering that Cocoon is one of > FOP's biggest customers and that they're using Avalon, both, FOP and > Cocoon, could profit from the synergies. Currently, some interesting > stuff is being moved from Cocoon to Avalon Excalibur that FOP might also > profit from. On the other side: Avalon is lean but it brings some more > jars to include in the distribution (which some people don't like) and > takes some time to understand to really profit from. > > Hey, don't flame me because I have expressed this. I'm just dreaming > aloud. :-) I mean, we're using Avalon here at Outline and we're starting > to get good at it. It helps us very much in making better code.
There are a number of packages in Avalon that would be useful, such as command line parsing. I would be for an integration in general espacially since cocoon uses it. There will be resistence to the extra jar. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
