On 3/6/06, Yoav Shapira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hola, > > > From Commons: > > > > * EL (dormant?) > > Tricky status here, and here's why: the JSP 2.1 spec has EL changes, > and they're significant enough that Jacob Hookum did an almost > cleanroom implementation of EL. He's a newly-elected Tomcat committer > (Tomcat 6 will support JSP 2.1) and is in the process of donating the > EL implementation to Tomcat technically. It's going to live on its > own within the Tomcat repository, as we'd like to modularize things > further in Tomcat 6 and he'd like to make the EL impl usable by other > servers (Glassfish is already using it or will in the near future). > <snip/>
Thanks for the update. I was aware of that, I sometimes read tc-dev when things of interest pop up. > In light of that, I'm not sure what commons-el should do. Maybe move > into the Tomcat repo? Maybe instead of hosting the new EL in Tomcat > we should move it to Web Components along with the old commons-EL? > <snap/> Seems like a decision for the Tomcat PMC. I understand there is some interest in keeping 2.1 EL in the TC repository, and maybe potentially having its own release cycle. But thats hearsay, please update us when a decision is made. > > * Others per interest (I have little interest in JSP 1.1/1.2 taglibs, > > been on 2.0 for a while now) > > Right, but we should keep the repositories together, so if 2.0 moves > to Web Components, so should 1.1/1.2 taglibs. > <snip/> Sounds good, I was waiting for someone else to nudge me on this. So, *all* taglibs will be moved, with a suitable application of Hen's disclaimer. -Rahul > Yoav > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
