+1 from me too; "Senior Project Admin" makes me somehow feels so terrible
old :-)

Kind regards,
Andreas

On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 18:04, Toni Menzel <t...@okidokiteam.com> wrote:

>
>
> On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 5:41 PM, Harald Wellmann <
> hwellmann...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>
>> Am 05.11.2011 12:57, schrieb Toni Menzel:
>>
>>  Hey Harald,
>>>
>>> great you consider OPS4J here. I think it would be nice to have stronger
>>> non Pax projects in the community, also to broaden the area to non OSGi
>>> projects.
>>>
>>
>> Sounds good - and while I really like OSGi, there's still a lot of useful
>> things you can do without it ;-)
>>
>>
>>  As of JAXB, haven't really worked with it in recent years, so cannot
>>> really judge about the usefulness - if you want to say so. But reading
>>> from 
>>> http://code.google.com/p/jaxb-**visitor/<http://code.google.com/p/jaxb-visitor/>it
>>>  looks like a worthwhile.
>>> I would agree with putting it, specially using the name "XVisitor", into
>>> OPS4J.
>>>
>>
>> I've been doing a lot of XML document processing over the past couple of
>> months which was greatly simplified by introducing a JAXB model instead of
>> working on the DOM tree directly.
>>
>> I'm already using a modified version of the jaxb-visitor project to
>> extract information from the JAXB models, so I do think the approach is
>> very useful, provided there is a not-too-exotic XSD, and the documents are
>> small enough to fit into RAM.
>>
>>
>>
>>> One question i have is, did you talk to the
>>> http://code.google.com/p/jaxb-**visitor/<http://code.google.com/p/jaxb-visitor/>guys
>>>  already possibly merging the
>>> two ? (mostly if you are improving the original project e.g. forking)
>>>
>>>
>> Yes, I sent them a patch in April and they said they were busy with other
>> things,
>>
>> The patch has not been applied yet, and there have been no commits since
>> May.
>>
>> Anyway, by now I'd like to go into a rather different direction by making
>> depth-first traversal with callbacks the default behaviour for the visitors.
>>
>> The design of jaxb-visitor is perfectly fine as such, but one size does
>> not fit all, and I'm just trying to take a similar but incompatible
>> approach which is better suited to my use cases.
>>
>> Regarding incubation, I do agree it would be useful to set up a standard
>> procedure for this.
>>
>> Only in the case of XVisitor, incubation would be overkill... There's
>> just 7 Java classes, plus integration tests, and I didn't start from
>> scratch, but from a working solution.
>>
>> I'm going to create a GitHub repo for XVisitor in my own user space later
>> today or tomorrow so everyone can take a look, and if there are no
>> objections, a group admin could fork it into the org.ops4j space, set up a
>> Hudson job and all the rest...
>>
>> Of course, as usual, I'm happy to do any admin stuff myself, once I get
>> the required privileges and/or instructions from the senior project admins
>> :-)
>
>
> Sounds like a plan! At best set the project up exactly like how you would
> like to have it appear in the ops4j space it best (including naming and all
> that).
> "Senior Project Admins" .. tsss ;)
>
>
>>
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Harald
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