Ceki G�lc� wrote: > > In your opinion, what are the key factors in nurturing a developer > community?
To paraphrase Stefano Mazzocchi (only because I can't locate the exact words via Google at the moment) - a wonderful idea with a lousy implementation. Any other permutations of those two don't seem to work. ; -) Tomcat and Ant met both of these criterias at the time they became subprojects of Jakarta. Oro and Regexp sprung to life fully formed, not leaving enough of an itch to be scratched, so have gathered less attention. In retrospect, people found alternatives that are more appealing than constructing HTML element by element within your Java programs. Sometimes the reasons an implementation is lousy (or at least, not appropriate for the task at hand) are non-technical. Freemarker was a wonderful idea with a GPL implementation. Hence velocity was born. I can name other, more recent, examples why there is duplication within Jakarta along these lines. But in most cases, the angers have not cooled, so bringing up these examples would be more of a distraction than help address your question. - Sam Ruby -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
