[DRAFT1] Jakarta Newsletter - November 2002
Jakarta Newsletter == Issue: 5 Date: November 2002 Url: http://jakarta.apache.org/site/news/200211.html It has been a quiet month. Commons has killed on old component and welcomed a new one, while other components have kept up fixes, features and releases. Elsewhere there has been more discussion about the infrastructure and community at Apache, and an attempt to be helpful to those developers using IDEs As always, I want to thank those who contributed and hope that you enjoy the read. If you would like to comment further on any of the highlighted discussions then please do so on the appropriate list, if you want to comment on the newsletter itself then please point your comments to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rob Oxspring Contents General Commons General === Ideas, suggestions, and comments on the overall Jakarta project Editor: Rob Oxspring Andrew Oliver decided to do something about the Java developers who cut their teeth on IDEs and don't understand the intricacies of the command line tools that are used under the hood. The page [1] was welcomed by many and was rapidly expanded [2] and should hopefully be a resource useful to a wide range of developers. Duplicated or pointless import statements appear over time in most Java code. This is an issue that Tom Copeland wanted to tackle, and sparked a few iterations [3] of the bad imports report [4]. [1] - http://archives.apache.org/eyebrowse/BrowseList?[EMAIL PROTECTED]from=281536to=281536count=39by=threadpaged=f alse [2] - http://jakarta.apache.org/site/idedevelopers.html [3] - http://archives.apache.org/eyebrowse/BrowseList?[EMAIL PROTECTED]by=threadfrom=271386 [4] - http://cvs.apache.org/~tcopeland/jakarta_bad_imports.htm Commons === creating and maintaining reusable Java components Editor: Henri Yandell Releases November saw the release of two new projects from Jakarta Commons, and the release of a bugfix for another project. Commons Validator 1.0 was mentioned in the previous newsletter. It was released on November 1st and is a validation framework from the Struts people. Commons CLI 1.0 was released on the 6th of November and is an API for parsing command line arguments. It is the direct descendant of 3 older argument parsing APIs and other APIs have affected it over mail list discussions. This gives it a very high pedigree and makes it a great choice for handling the command line. Commons Lang 1.0.1 is the first bugfix release for the Lang project. There are no new APIs or deprecated functionality, so all Commons Lang users are advised to upgrade, although the bugfixes are not earth-shattering. [1] - http://jakarta.apache.org/builds/jakarta-commons/release/commons-validator/v1.0/RELEASE-NOTES.txt [2] - http://jakarta.apache.org/builds/jakarta-commons/release/commons-cli/v1.0/RELEASE-NOTES.txt [3] - http://jakarta.apache.org/builds/jakarta-commons/release/commons-lang/v1.0.1/RELEASE-NOTES.txt Gossip -- November was quiet for Commons, as it was for all of Apache. Indeed, the Commons mail list dropped by 35%. The Patterns project in the Sandbox has been mothballed as its code is to go into Commons Lang and Commons Util. Work has begun on moving the BeanUtils reflection code over to Commons Lang and various BeanUtils bugs were dealt with. A new database utility project has been proposed with generic JDBC(tm) utilities and lives under the name of 'DbUtils' in the sandbox and a project named 'attributes' has been proposed to handle runtime metadata attributes. [1] - http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/sandbox/attributes/ Jelly - Editor: James Strachan Here are the main changes that have happened recently on the Jelly project... XPath sorting now added to the XML library j:useBean can now construct beans with constructor parameters better reporting of JellyUnit failures, line numbers, expressions etc. XMLUnit library added for unit testing of XML inside JellyUnit So now JellyUnit can support the following XML unit testing constructs XPath based assertions via test:assert xpath=.../ schema validation via the jelly:validate library, testing XML against DTDs, XML Schema, RelaxNG etc comparing 2 documents for equality using the new XMLUnit library performing XSLT on some XML and then then performing any of the above parsing HTML via the Neko parser and treating it as XML in any of the above As well as Jexl based assertions, assertEquals and a new assertThrown tag to test for exceptions being thrown in Jelly scripts. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: I win!
Jon Scott Stevens wrote: Yes, I win! http://cvs.apache.org/~rubys/committers.html Ok, that page makes me laugh. =) While in good mood, may be you could apply http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=8467 ? Vadim -jon -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: I win!
on 2002/12/3 6:35 AM, Vadim Gritsenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: While in good mood, may be you could apply http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=8467 ? Vadim Where are the test cases? -jon -- StudioZ.tv /\ Bar/Nightclub/Entertainment 314 11th Street @ Folsom /\ San Francisco http://studioz.tv/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: I win!
on 2002/12/3 12:20 PM, Vadim Gritsenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Done. Attached to the bug report: http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/showattachment.cgi?attach_id=4029 Done. As an added bonus, I updated the build system to use more current standards. -jon -- StudioZ.tv /\ Bar/Nightclub/Entertainment 314 11th Street @ Folsom /\ San Francisco http://studioz.tv/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: I win!
Jon Scott Stevens wrote:
on 2002/12/3 12:20 PM, Vadim Gritsenko [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Done. Attached to the bug report:
http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/showattachment.cgi?attach_id=4029
Done.
As an added bonus, I updated the build system to use more current standards.
ant docs fails with:
AnakiaTask is not present! Please check to make sure that
velocity.jar is in your classpath.
I guess something is wrong here (yes, I've checked out jakarta-site2).
Also, ant package-all fails because of:
Index: build.xml
===
RCS file: /home/cvspublic/jakarta-regexp/build/build.xml,v
retrieving revision 1.1
diff -u -r1.1 build.xml
--- build.xml3 Dec 2002 20:57:51 -1.1
+++ build.xml3 Dec 2002 21:18:51 -
@@ -141,7 +141,7 @@
exclude name=velocity.log/
/fileset
/copy
-copy file=../LICENSE tofile=${final.dir}/LICENSE/
+copy file=../LICENSE.txt tofile=${final.dir}/LICENSE.txt/
copy file=${build.dir}/${final.name}.jar
tofile=${final.dir}/${final.name}.jar/
/target
Thanks for applying the patch.
Vadim
-jon
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Re: I win!
on 2002/12/3 1:20 PM, Vadim Gritsenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ant docs fails with: AnakiaTask is not present! Please check to make sure that velocity.jar is in your classpath. Fixed I guess something is wrong here (yes, I've checked out jakarta-site2). Also, ant package-all fails because of: Sam already caught that one... -jon -- StudioZ.tv /\ Bar/Nightclub/Entertainment 314 11th Street @ Folsom /\ San Francisco http://studioz.tv/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: IDE Developers' guide
So what does this particular BAH stands for??? Do you need to send on a new definition for it to Atomica? --DD BAH stands for: Bachelor of Arts, Honors program Bahamas Bahrain, Bahrain - Bahrain International Bahrain (Airport Code) Basic Allowance for Housing (replaces BAQ 1 Jan 98) Booz-Allen Hamilton, Inc. Business After Hours -Original Message- From: Daniel Rall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2002 3:36 PM To: Jakarta General List Subject: Re: IDE Developers' guide snip/ BAH -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Short Apache licence for source files
Interesting. All the HttpClient files have the full form. It would be nice to simply refrence the actual license file, if this is acceptable. Darrell DeBoer wrote: G'day, I know this has been discussed before, but has any progress been made on a short version of the Apache licence for source files? Most source files in James use the following: /* * Copyright (C) The Apache Software Foundation. All rights reserved. * * This software is published under the terms of the Apache Software License * version 1.1, a copy of which has been included with this distribution in * the LICENSE file. */ I don't know where it started, but if someone can someone tell me definitively that this is against ASF rules, I will move to rectify the situation. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Short Apache licence for source files
Darrell DeBoer wrote: G'day, I know this has been discussed before, but has any progress been made on a short version of the Apache licence for source files? Most source files in James use the following: /* * Copyright (C) The Apache Software Foundation. All rights reserved. * * This software is published under the terms of the Apache Software License * version 1.1, a copy of which has been included with this distribution in * the LICENSE file. */ I don't know where it started, but if someone can someone tell me definitively that this is against ASF rules, I will move to rectify the situation. Currently we should use the full version. There will be a short version of the next 2.0 license that will be equally protecting from a legal POV, but in the meantime use the full version. -- Nicola Ken Barozzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] - verba volant, scripta manent - (discussions get forgotten, just code remains) - -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Short Apache licence for source files
On Wed, 4 Dec 2002, Darrell DeBoer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't know where it started, but if someone can someone tell me definitively that this is against ASF rules, I will move to rectify the situation. Roy Fielding and several other board members have repeatedly stated that the short version is not acceptable IIRC. License 2.0 is supposed to help. Stefan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
