Geir,
My answer is in the bottom of the message that you quote. I am
stripping the rest of the message for clarity.
Andrus
On Feb 20, 2006, at 5:56 PM, Geir Magnusson Jr wrote:
I asked earlier but didn't get an answer, I don't think.
Why would you like to come to the ASF?
geir
Andrus Adamchik wrote:
On Feb 20, 2006, at 5:33 AM, Geir Magnusson Jr wrote:
Why do they want to come to Apache?
Answering Geir's question... I elaborated a bit on that in the
message to tapestry-dev above. Let me expand.
Cayenne has a five year history of providing strong and unique
persistence framework. During this time we've built a vibrant
grassroots community with zero corporate sponsorship. And while
things look good for Cayenne now and can stay the way they are for
any foreseeable future, we are always looking for ways to expand
the community and to bring our ideas to a wider audience.
So why Apache? It just seems natural. Back in the day when we set
up ObjectStyle.org, we looked at Apache as an example of how an
open source collaborative environment should work. And we
succeeded in building one, on a smaller scale. Now making Cayenne
an ASF project is a logical next step. And note that we are taking
our current community with us, not just throwing the code over the
wall.
Also we are willing to collaborate with other projects if there is
a natural synergy. For instance we recently announced that Cayenne
will be implementing JPA (ORM part of JSR-220). So we are closely
watching the related activities in Geronimo. I already contributed
a number of JPA-related things to Open EJB and at the end the plan
is to contribute Cayenne JPA provider to Geronimo. I am sure other
synergies will become more obvious once we are in.
Andrus
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Andrei (aka Andrus) Adamchik
Cayenne Persistence Framework
Lead Architect
http://objectstyle.org/cayenne/
