Re: nice

2003-01-29 Thread Leo Simons
Robert Simmons wrote: Welcome to real life business. In the real world, not everything goes your way. You get to choose between a mass of political bullshit and having no choice at all. you have a choice: open source software. And it's a good choice for real life business, too. cheers :D -

Logging strategy

2003-01-29 Thread Dani Estermann
Has jakarta got a strategy/guideline/regulation that recommends a certain logging api to be used by jakarta projects? Are existing and future jakarta projects allowed to choose between log4j, LogKit, commons-logging or even JDK1.4-Logging? We are currently choosing a logging api and

Re: Logging strategy

2003-01-29 Thread Paul Hammant
[..] to choose between log4j, LogKit, commons-logging or even JDK1.4-Logging? There is also logging delivered by Avalon-Framework. My personal view is that the makers of reusable components should not log at all and the the logging choice (log4J directly or one of the abstractions here) is

Re: Logging strategy

2003-01-29 Thread Nicola Ken Barozzi
Dani Estermann wrote: Has jakarta got a strategy/guideline/regulation that recommends a certain logging api to be used by jakarta projects? Are existing and future jakarta projects allowed to choose between log4j, LogKit, commons-logging or even JDK1.4-Logging? We are currently choosing a

Re: nice

2003-01-29 Thread Andrew C. Oliver
Those who cast the votes decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide everything. --Josef Stalin Robert Simmons wrote: JCP is the Java community process. A federation of hundreds of companies that produces standards (such as EJB) for the Java community. Anyone can be a member and your vote

Re: nice

2003-01-29 Thread Andrew C. Oliver
Real life business shouldn't be bullshit. I'm not going to buy into that. It is people like you who opt into the flawed choices instead of speaking up that allow the flawed choices to continue on longer than they should. -jon +1 Well said Jon.

Re: Logging strategy

2003-01-29 Thread Henri Yandell
On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, [iso-8859-1] Paul Hammant wrote: [..] to choose between log4j, LogKit, commons-logging or even JDK1.4-Logging? There is also logging delivered by Avalon-Framework. I thought that was LogKit Paul? My personal view is that the makers of reusable components should

Re: Logging strategy

2003-01-29 Thread Howard M. Lewis Ship
For frameworks, you can't tell how the end-user will be configured. That's why we switched Tapestry over to commons-logging, so that the end-user can get the benefits of logging, regardless of whether they are using Log4J, javax.logging or something else. We also ship Log4J, since we try to

Re: Logging strategy

2003-01-29 Thread Ceki Gülcü
At 11:21 29.01.2003 +0100, Dani Estermann wrote: Has jakarta got a strategy/guideline/regulation that recommends a certain logging api to be used by jakarta projects? Are existing and future jakarta projects allowed to choose between log4j, LogKit, commons-logging or even JDK1.4-Logging? We

Re: nice

2003-01-29 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr .
On Wednesday, January 29, 2003, at 08:32 AM, Henri Yandell wrote: It's only by understanding the JCP and infiltrating it that we have much chance to try and change it though. The whole thing is just one opaque block from here. We have 'infiltrated' it. The ASF is a member of the J2SE/J2EE

Re: nice

2003-01-29 Thread Henri Yandell
On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: We have 'infiltrated' it. The ASF is a member of the J2SE/J2EE executive committee (I am the current representative), and we have many members (and non-members) participating in various JSRs. Yeah I know. Thus my questions as to whether

Re: nice

2003-01-29 Thread Serge Knystautas
Andrew C. Oliver wrote: Those who cast the votes decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide everything. --Josef Stalin Actually, the latest update to this is, The court that decides whether to recount the votes... decides everything. -- Serge Knystautas President Lokitech software .

Re: nice

2003-01-29 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr .
On Wednesday, January 29, 2003, at 09:38 AM, Henri Yandell wrote: On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: We have 'infiltrated' it. The ASF is a member of the J2SE/J2EE executive committee (I am the current representative), and we have many members (and non-members) participating

Re: Logging strategy

2003-01-29 Thread Costin Manolache
The only problem is that Tapestry originally had a special, built-in web page for creating Log4J loggers (nee categories), and changing Log4J levels (nee priorities). This used addtiional methods in Log4J Logger for setting the level, and elsewhere for creating new loggers. The

Re: Logging strategy

2003-01-29 Thread Howard M. Lewis Ship
I'll probably get this functionality by operating directly on the Log4J API, but enabling the page only if Log4J is on the classpath. - Original Message - From: Costin Manolache [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 10:48 AM Subject: Re: Logging

Re: Logging strategy

2003-01-29 Thread Morgan Delagrange
--- Ceki Gülcü [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 11:21 29.01.2003 +0100, Dani Estermann wrote: Has jakarta got a strategy/guideline/regulation that recommends a certain logging api to be used by jakarta projects? Are existing and future jakarta projects allowed to choose between log4j, LogKit,

Re: nice

2003-01-29 Thread Micael
I think the next improvement on who decides should mention guns, anthrax, etc.? At 10:08 AM 1/29/03 -0500, you wrote: Andrew C. Oliver wrote: Those who cast the votes decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide everything. --Josef Stalin Actually, the latest update to this is, The court

RE: nice

2003-01-29 Thread Tom Copeland
http://info.astrian.net/jargon/terms/g/godwin_s_law.html Tom -Original Message- From: Micael [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 12:20 PM To: Jakarta General List Subject: Re: nice I think the next improvement on who decides should mention guns,

Re: Logging strategy

2003-01-29 Thread Jon Scott Stevens
on 2003/1/29 5:56 AM, Ceki Gülcü [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I believe log4j is here to stay. Its user base is large and growing. As time passes, more people will gravitate to it as it keeps improving. We have enough cool features in pipe to keep us busy for the foreseeable future. Simile, the

Re: Logging strategy

2003-01-29 Thread Henri Yandell
On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, Jon Scott Stevens wrote: on 2003/1/29 5:56 AM, Ceki Gülcü [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I believe log4j is here to stay. Its user base is large and growing. As time passes, more people will gravitate to it as it keeps improving. We have enough cool features in pipe to

Re: nice

2003-01-29 Thread Jon Scott Stevens
on 2003/1/29 7:16 AM, Geir Magnusson Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The ASF is a member. Any ASF member is covered by that agreement, and can thus, if they choose, represent the ASF on the EG if the EG accepts. IIRC, non-members can also represent the ASF on an expert group, but it does

Re: nice

2003-01-29 Thread Henri Yandell
So the solution for committers who would like to be involved in the JCP is to hand around their announce list and website, when a particular new JSR is announced they can go volunteer. If successful, then they would do the agreement thing and be an ASF representative? Hen On Wed, 29 Jan 2003,

Re: nice

2003-01-29 Thread Santiago Gala
Jon Scott Stevens wrote: (...) Real life business shouldn't be bullshit. I'm not going to buy into that. It is people like you who opt into the flawed choices instead of speaking up that allow the flawed choices to continue on longer than they should. IMO, the closeness of the JCP process

Re: nice

2003-01-29 Thread Santiago Gala
Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: (...) What else would you like to know? What are your specific problems? is there a specific technology/spec that you are interested in participating in? have you ever interacted with the expert group of a JSR via their interest list or during a public, community

Re: Open ThunderGraph in Jakarta ?

2003-01-29 Thread Santiago Gala
Martin van den Bemt wrote: Love to see a gui framework / tools thingy on apache.. Working on that stuff a lot lately (of course has a Apache Style License) Jesktop (http://jesktop.sourceforge.net/) is written by Apache commiters, Avalon based and could be a good foundation for a GUI project

Re: Incubator home page (was Tapestry)

2003-01-29 Thread Santiago Gala
Nicola Ken Barozzi wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is one of my least favourite features of this forrest skin. Look at this version, which is a modified forrest skin, if it's better: http://www.krysalis.org/centipede/ I took all the suggestions from users like this one and made that

Re: nice

2003-01-29 Thread Jon Scott Stevens
on 2003/1/29 10:26 AM, Henri Yandell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So the solution for committers who would like to be involved in the JCP is to hand around their announce list and website, when a particular new JSR is announced they can go volunteer. If successful, then they would do the

Re: Incubator home page (was Tapestry)

2003-01-29 Thread Nicola Ken Barozzi
Santiago Gala wrote: Nicola Ken Barozzi wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is one of my least favourite features of this forrest skin. Look at this version, which is a modified forrest skin, if it's better: http://www.krysalis.org/centipede/ I took all the suggestions from users like

Re: nice

2003-01-29 Thread acoliver
Yeah, for instance, I was once interviewed for a contract to hire gig at Microsoft. (This was circa '97 prior to my involvment in Java). Had I sold my soul, would I still be able to be a member of Apache? While I do not subscribe to the jcp ot apache det org mailing list due to the NDA

Re: nice

2003-01-29 Thread acoliver
And they would not be able to collaborate with their fellow members who are not in the expert group due to NDAs. -Andy - Original Message - From: Henri Yandell [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Jakarta General List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 1:26 PM Subject: Re: nice So

Re: nice

2003-01-29 Thread acoliver
There is a JCP mail list, but because of various non-disclosure agreements made by the ASF, it's limited to ASF members, who are bound by the same agreements. If there is sufficient interest in an open JCP discussion list, I'm sure we can set that up. +1 - especially if a goal of it is to

RE: Logging strategy

2003-01-29 Thread mwomack
Nicola Ken Barozzi wrote: As always, choose the right tool for the job. If you need to be able to switch logging implementations, use Commons Logging. If you need more power, use log4j. If you are 100% sure that you will use 1.4+ Java, and have people accustomed to that logging, use

[Discussion] (Fake)Forrest for Jakarta!

2003-01-29 Thread Christoph Wilhelms
Hi all! I saw the Tapestry discussion, and this remindet me, that I wanted to carry FakeForrest to Jakarta! So what is it? Simple: It's a set of 2 Velocity/Anakia template-files and some images. The Velocity templates are build upon the Jakarta-ones and follow the Jakarta-Anakia-DTD! What does

I feel so vindicated.

2003-01-29 Thread Jon Scott Stevens
http://www.freeroller.net/page/ara_e/20021214 I think we are going to see more and more of this over the coming year as the economy gets worse and worse and people are expected to produce real working applications. People are going to start to clue in to the fact that EJB sucks. JSP sucks. JCP

Re: LGPL beans imported into code at Apache....

2003-01-29 Thread Paul Hammant
Pier, The end of the thread on cocoon-dev... http://nagoya.apache.org/eyebrowse/ReadMsg?[EMAIL PROTECTED] gmsgId=625635 We came to the conclusion (I believe) that we don't _want_ it. Agree. Much better truly open linkables. Roughly the whole thread:

[ANNOUNCEMENT] JXPath 1.1 Beta 1 released

2003-01-29 Thread Dmitri Plotnikov
JXPath 1.1 Beta 1 has been released. We released JXPath 1.0 in July 2002. Since then we have added some new features, fixed a significant number or problems, refactored and beefed up the JUnit test system. The package has been very stable for quite some time. Please see draft release notes at