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April 29, 2001: Jakarta-commons Summary digest
Summarizing list traffic from Apr 22 through Apr 28.
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Topics general to Jakarta-commons:
[Configuration Mgmt]
What is the best approach for CVS branches and releases?
- Use conventions from Taglibs
- Perhaps label branches as <COMPONENT>_REL_<VERSION>_BRANCH for
development and <COMPONENT>_REL_<VERSION> for releases
[Standardized ant behavior]
What should ant dist do?
- Generate binary with docs, no source, compressed
- Whether filename should contain a version number
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New proposals:
[HttpClient] (from Slide)
Library Summary:
- A near-complete HTTP 1.1 client lib
- Designed to be simple yet extendable
Progress:
- Moved into commons proper
Discussion:
- Proposal approved
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New submissions to the sandbox (without proposal):
[Cadastre] (original contribution)
Library Summary:
- JNDI implementation framework
- Similar to jBoss JNP
[JNLP implementation]
- Possible commons project
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Progress and other threads:
[Collections]
Progress:
- Implementing mathematically rigorous tests on collection objects
Discussion:
- Best implementations and approaches for mathematical rigor
Contributions:
- Adapters between iterator and enumeration
- BeanMap, LRUMap, SoftRefHashMap
- Closures
- Other iterators and utilities
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