At 02:36 3/5/01 -0400, Michael L. Heuer wrote:
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>apologies if this is seen as trolling, but aren't there implementations of
>logging kits, thread and object pools, and other goodies, all nicely
>wrapped in 'Separation of Concerns' interfaces allowing for maximum
>pluggability and configurability of a system, already in the jakarta
>Avalon project?
yep - but new things are shinier. It was felt that instead of working with
another project it would be better to reinvent the wheel. The reason being
that is is easier to promote collaboration between projects if you start
with a clean slate and try to to duplicate work in existing projects.
Cheers,
Pete
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