Sam Ruby wrote:
> I'm trying to move away from hypotheticals and into specifics.
> So let me get REAL specific. First item on the agenda is what? I believe
> it is a database connection pool. And I believe that Struts has one of
> those. And I believe that you, Ted, have been known to play in that area.
> So, Ted, let me ask you - would you be personally satisfied and feel that
> your job is done if the DBCP produced was not accepted by Struts?
To be honest, Sam, that sounds like a hypothetical to me ;-)
The specifics of what we have worked-up so far are at
< http://husted.com/about/jakarta/lib003.htm >
and
< http://husted.com/about/jakarta/lib004.htm >
Personally, I would feel that we had done something good if every time
someone asked about a JDBC connection pool on JSP-interest, three people
I never heard of chimed in about the nifty package in the Jakarta
library.
Community is fun, but it really has to be about the users.
And, as I mentioned here,
<
http://www.mail-archive.com/library-dev%40jakarta.apache.org/msg00135.html
>
I think the step we're missing is where we pull packages out of the
products so we can build more products without writing so many new
packages. The subprojects are evolving in that direction, but we know
how long evolution can take ;-)
-Ted.
