How about Jakarta Pebbles? After a while we can start a project called
bambam .. then wilma, then freddie .. wow imagine the possibilities with
Bedrock!

Yabba dabba doo!

Sanjiva.

On Wed, 2006-03-08 at 07:35 -0500, Yoav Shapira wrote:
> Hola,
> Both Rocks and Syllables are a great suggestion ;)
> 
> I disagee that a 1-word name implies TLP: just look at our current
> projects for many counter-examples.  Most things under WS are 1-word
> where the TLP itself is two words, and WS is not a unique TLP in that
> respect.  The inverse is also true, where we have numerous "technical"
> or "non-marketing-oriented" TLP names, like HTTP Server, DB,
> Directory, Logging, Web Services...
> 
> There's a decent body of scholarly work that shows users (customers)
> identify more with 1-word "catchy" product (project) names.  I think
> now's a decent chance to pick names like these, becuase it will
> increase the likelihood of new users and developers joining the
> community, maybe even reviving some of the dead-er projects.
> 
> Moreover, as we've seen already, it's hard to make precise definitions
> of what's a "web" components versus just an "http" component, what's a
> "lang" component, etc, so the meaning of Jakarta Web Components is not
> crystal clear anyways.  And if it's not clear to us discussing it
> here, you can be sure it's not clear to users who are not as savvy or
> familiar with the components.
> 
> I guess the real background to this is that I'm hoping we're not just
> shuffling for the sake of shuffling.  I'm trying to create some more
> incentives, however small (after all, the world runs on micromotives,
> according to some: http://www.cscs.umich.edu/abc/abc_ken/sld018.htm),
> for both existing and new people to involve themselves in these
> projects...
> 
> All that said, I'm not -1 on a techie term like Jakarta Web Components
> -- if a lot of people want it, so be it.  I'm a clear -0, very
> different from -1 ;)
> 
> Yoav
> 
> On 3/8/06, C. Grobmeier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> > > Since those Java Language Components have some kind of Core nature, I 
> > > think
> > > of something solid ... what about
> > >
> > > Jakarta Rocks
> >
> > 8-) This is great!
> > - - Chris
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