I've reviewed Dmitri Plotnikov's work on integrating Java Beans into XPath
and I think its a great piece of work.
http://members-http-1.rwc1.sfba.home.net/dplotnik/jxpath/jxpath.html
It essentially allows Java Beans to be viewed as a DOM tree such that Xalan
can be used to evaluate XPath expressions, XSLT patterns or even perform
XSLT on Java Beans. I think this is awesome and a suprisingly small code
base too. Sounds like perfect jakarta-commons material. It would serve as a
great tool for integrating XPath expression languages into JSP tag
libraries. I already want to start using it in the xtags JSP custom tag
library in the Jakarta-taglibs project. It could well be useful in the
Struts project too.
Both Dmitri and myself would love this project to be added to the
jakarta-commons project. Dmitri is happy to change the licence and copyright
to ASF and use the jakarta-commons build format and directory layout etc.
We've decided to call the project "JPath" for simplicity.
Would the correct protocol be to add it to the jakarta-commons-sandbox then
when its ready call a vote for it to be included in the jakarta-commons
area? If so I'd like to nominate Dmitri for commit access to the sandbox CVS
area so we can both get JPath ready for its first release, which should
hopefully be quite soon now. Is the fact that Dmitri isn't already a jakarta
committer be a problem?
James
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