On 3/29/02 10:40 AM, "Peter Donald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, 30 Mar 2002 02:36, Danny Angus wrote: >>> Now that you can (well, soon) legally implement JSR47's, you >>> might was well >>> support their interfaces and semantics, and then 'embrace and >>> extend'. Just >>> do the JSR47 stuff better :) >> >> Could Log4J now become an RI of JSR47 ? (I'm still not completely clear >> about all this..) > > Not really and nor could you "embrace and extend". Soon we will be allowed > access to the TCKs (fingers crossed) which means we can implment the spec > legally. However there has not been any change to any of the licenses > regarding the specification materials which means it is still a violation of > the license if you were to try and "corrupt" a spec or "embrace and extend" a > spec by poorly-implementing it (and failing the TCK). However now we can at > least implement the spec(s). I can't believe that's true. I can't see how they can prevent you from extending. I mean, every J2EE implementation 'embraces and extends' the J2EE spec because the specs leave out a lot. For example, you can't make a really useful JMS broker until you add proprietary extensions for clustering, load balancing, etc... Anyone that includes any functioning taglibs with a servlet container / jsp implementation is extending the spec as there are no useful tags in the spec. I can't see how anyone can complain if you pass the TCK. geir -- Geir Magnusson Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] System and Software Consulting Be a giant. Take giant steps. Do giant things... -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
