Re: WORA Considered Evil ;-)

2003-06-27 Thread Pier Fumagalli
On 26/6/03 23:37, Noel J. Bergman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pier had pretty rock solid arguments *not* to use JAMES as a MTA and all came from the sysadm paranoia One example would be that you run James as root in order to access the privileged ports. And if James runs as root for the

Re: WORA Considered Evil ;-)

2003-06-27 Thread Pier Fumagalli
From: Adrian Sutton [EMAIL PROTECTED] On which platforms? And are we talking about the same thing? Are you saying that if I do export CATALINA_BASE=/site1; startup.sh export CATALINA_BASE=/site2; startup.sh export CATALINA_BASE=/site3; startup.sh ... export

Re: How ASF membership works and what it means

2003-06-27 Thread Pier Fumagalli
On 26/6/03 3:50, Stefano Mazzocchi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: note that for apache 1.3.x, JNI would have been hard because of the multi-process environment, but for apache 2.0, a JNI-based mod_java is perfectly valid architecturarely, but nobody works on it because of this sin syndrome. I'm

Re: How ASF membership works and what it means

2003-06-27 Thread Pier Fumagalli
On 27/6/03 0:43, Greg Stein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 12:32:08AM +0100, Pier Fumagalli wrote: ... Best way of doing things? Writing a connector for the servlet container using JNI that uses unix sockets, named pipes, or something which is actually faster than the usual

Re: Java + Scripting languages

2003-06-27 Thread Craig R. McClanahan
On Thu, 26 Jun 2003, David N. Welton wrote: Date: 26 Jun 2003 14:55:02 +0200 From: David N. Welton [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: community@apache.org To: community@apache.org Subject: Java + Scripting languages Hi guys, I saw this: http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=223 The

Re: How ASF membership works and what it means

2003-06-27 Thread Santiago Gala
Ask Bjoern Hansen escribió: Dan Sugalski wrote an article about why we can't just run Perl, Python or Ruby on the JVM or CLI: http://www.sidhe.org/~dan/blog/archives/000151.html This was the paper I couldn't find before. It made me think it was interesting, if it was able to do continuations,

RE: WORA Considered Evil ;-)

2003-06-27 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Well, all decent OSes... You won't find fork in stupid WindoSH... According to market researcher OneStat.com, Windows now controls 97.46 percent of the global desktop operating system market, compared to just 1.43 percent for Apple Macintosh and 0.26 percent for Linux. Do you have statistics on

Re: How ASF membership works and what it means

2003-06-27 Thread Costin Manolache
On Thu, 26 Jun 2003, Greg Stein wrote: On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 12:32:08AM +0100, Pier Fumagalli wrote: ... Best way of doing things? Writing a connector for the servlet container using JNI that uses unix sockets, named pipes, or something which is actually faster than the usual TCP socket

Re: Java + Scripting languages

2003-06-27 Thread Victor J. Orlikowski
On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 02:13:37PM -0400, Noel J. Bergman wrote: I am a priori discouraged because I don't see IBM represented. To have this JSR without participation from the BSF folks seems wrong. I don't know if this is payback for Eclipse and the WS-I, an oversight, or what.

RE: WORA Considered Evil ;-)

2003-06-27 Thread Danny Angus
Stephano wrote: And in order to do this, we must commit a few sins, one of which could be compiling our existing code for .NET CLI Funny you should mention that... because I'm porting the Mailet API to .NET. The problem isn't with the API, but with the dependance on javax.mail in particular

FW: WORA Considered Evil ;-)

2003-06-27 Thread Danny Angus
Don't know if Pier is subscribed to James-dev .. -Original Message- From: Richard O. Hammer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 27 June 2003 15:02 To: James Developers List Subject: Re: WORA Considered Evil ;-) Pier Fumagalli wrote: All those components must run ... (for

Re: Java + Scripting languages

2003-06-27 Thread Bill Stoddard
Noel J. Bergman wrote: http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=223 At the end, I will not be surprised if this turns out to be yet another JSP-like political compromise between vendors, with no technological value associated to it. I am a priori discouraged because I don't see IBM

Re: .Net languages (was: How ASF membership works and what it means)

2003-06-27 Thread Costin Manolache
On Fri, 27 Jun 2003, Greg Stein wrote: On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 07:42:12PM -0700, Costin Manolache wrote: ... Dot net is actually doing almost the same mistake as java (AFAIK)- they support other languages, but only syntactically ( like java does with the languages that generate java

Re: How ASF membership works and what it means

2003-06-27 Thread Pier Fumagalli
Costin Manolache [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 27 Jun 2003, Pier Fumagalli wrote: Now, if we put a JVM inside the Apache process scope, we end up with the same problem we had with Apache 1.3, how in the world am I going to be able to share a session between a JVM inside a multithreaded

Parrot [was Re: How ASF membership works and what it means]

2003-06-27 Thread Stefano Mazzocchi
copying the cocoon folks since we are getting pretty serious with continuations overthere (we implement them using a modified version of Mozilla Rhino, a javascript engine written in java) on 6/26/03 3:15 PM Ask Bjoern Hansen wrote: On Thu, 26 Jun 2003, Santiago Gala wrote: [...] I still

RE: Java + Scripting languages

2003-06-27 Thread Noel J. Bergman
http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=223 I am a priori discouraged because I don't see IBM represented. To have this JSR without participation from the BSF folks seems wrong. I don't know if this is payback for Eclipse and the WS-I, an oversight, or what. Lack of warm bodies with the right

Re: Java + Scripting languages

2003-06-27 Thread Stefano Mazzocchi
on 6/27/03 5:58 AM Sam Ruby wrote: Sometimes it sucks to be four years ahead of your time. Amen. -- Stefano. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

LinuxTag 2003

2003-06-27 Thread Lars Eilebrecht
Hi guys, I've just added a small file to CVS at committers/docs/de-meeting/linuxtag2003.txt People attending the expo/conference may just add their name etc., so that others know who will be there and at which days. ciao... -- Lars Eilebrecht- Hackers do it with bugs.

Re: Parrot [was Re: How ASF membership works and what it means]

2003-06-27 Thread Santiago Gala
Stefano Mazzocchi escribió: (...) Wow, a VM with native continuations, very interesting. Question: do you think it would be possible to compile java source code into parrot bytecode? how would the limited Perl typing capabilities would impact that? The key piece is the validator. The Java VM uses

Re: WORA Considered Evil ;-)

2003-06-27 Thread Joerg Pietschmann
Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: 1) we have no access to the JVM code, we can't make it faster, even if we wanted and knew how (java would be *so* much faster if we could reimplement part of the standard library natively! expecially Strings!) But you can reimplement parts of the standard library

RE: WORA Considered Evil ;-)

2003-06-27 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Steve and Kenny, There is a balance. Not all of Pier's issues may apply, but many of the important ones do. Frankly, I don't want to run anything at root that can avoid it. That is just good practice. Consider Vincenzo's anti-spam matcher. Would you want that to run as root? I am not

RE: WORA Considered Evil ;-)

2003-06-27 Thread Noel J. Bergman
I don't see Java as glue because it portrays integration with non-Java as anathema. It favors portability, which means that the abstractions have to be portable. No reason why you can't have glue classes using JNI to call things, but I would expect whatever is part of a standard distribution

RE: WORA Considered Evil ;-)

2003-06-27 Thread Steve Brewin
Noel, I'm sure that everyone is in favour of hardening James as much as possible. Its just that we should approach it from a Java perspective, not a C on Unix one. The issues are different. Frankly, I don't want to run anything at root that can avoid it. That is just good practice. Sure,