Re: Forum Software.

2003-01-24 Thread Kief Morris
Robert Simmons typed the following on 03:20 24/01/2003 +0100 >I say that forum software would be useful because I am in three mailing >lists at apache that I use in order to ask questions. >Tomcat, Cocoon and this one. as a result i get an enormous amount of mail. >Aout 95% of it is irrelevant to

Re: http://jakarta.apache.org/

2002-02-01 Thread Kief Morris
I had thought this was just me - I had trouble pinging it also, it looked like routing problems at bbnplanet. But now I can ping, but am getting connection refused errors. FTP to ftp.apache.org is hanging on me, also. I can connect with ssh though. Kief Scott Tavares typed the following on 07:

Minor patch for jakarta-site2

2002-01-19 Thread Kief Morris
I haven't got karma or an account to the web server, so here's a patch for a minor problem I found while messing with the site. The problem is that $rowspan and $colspan variables for setting the attributes of cells need to be reset, otherwise later cells which don't explicitly set those value

Re: Proposal: Component survey

2002-01-07 Thread Kief Morris
Jeff Turner typed the following on 03:16 PM 1/8/2002 +1100 > This will be a dynamic catalog, like Bugzilla and Jyve, > similar in functionality to download.com, cpan.org, or > SourceForge.net. New entries may be added by Jakarta committers, > developers, and users. Entries by developers

Proposal: Component survey

2002-01-07 Thread Kief Morris
I've been meaning to trawl through the jakarta subprojects looking for components that could be suitable for using in a project of mine. It occurs to me that having an inventory of components could be a useful thing for Jakarta, both for general developers who may be overwhelmed by what's there,

Re: Cultural homogeneity

2002-01-07 Thread Kief Morris
Jon Scott Stevens typed the following on 04:22 PM 1/6/2002 -0800 >on 1/6/02 3:46 PM, "Kief Morris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Although I haven't been participating, I've been following this discussion, >> and would like to donate my 30,000 Tur

[OT] Snow

2002-01-06 Thread Kief Morris
Andrew C. Oliver typed the following on 06:10 PM 1/6/2002 -0500 >YANKEES PLEASE READ THIS: > >Please come get your white stuff off of the ground and take it back up >North where it belongs. We have no need for it here in the South. Yeah? Try it here in Istanbul! I crowed to all my friends ba

Re: Cultural homogeneity

2002-01-06 Thread Kief Morris
Although I haven't been participating, I've been following this discussion, and would like to donate my 30,000 Turkish Lira (roughly $0.02 at today's rates). What is a Jakarta subproject? The one common thread I see in pretty much all Jakarta subprojects is that they serve the needs of people dev

RE: More abuse of coding styles...

2002-01-04 Thread Kief Morris
Stephane Bailliez typed the following on 09:42 AM 1/4/2002 + >> We had that discussion once on Commons, and many people liked the >> underscore convention. > >I can understand why: > >public void setSomething(Object something){ > something = something; >} > >It is one of my major source

RE: Distributing the JSSE

2001-10-27 Thread Kief Morris
Ylan Segal typed the following on 09:47 AM 10/26/2001 -0600 >> >> so this is an US export law issue and not a Sun License issue? >> >I was under the impression that the US had lifted some of the export issues >in regards to crypto. For example, in the past, browsers (like IE or >Netscape) download

Re: Binaries in CVS

2001-04-12 Thread Kief Morris
Sam Ruby typed the following on 02:21 PM 4/12/2001 -0400 >Jon Stevens wrote: >> >> Sam doesn't like it? :-) > >What Sam doesn't like early binding to specific versions. > >The various Avalon projects are excellent examples of ones that both (1) >check in cvs binaries and utilize them automatically

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Tomcat 4.0 Beta 2

2001-03-31 Thread Kief Morris
Craig R. McClanahan typed the following on 11:26 PM 3/30/2001 -0800 >I'm pleased to announce the availability of the Beta 2 release of the >next generation of the Tomcat servlet container, Rockin'! So can we consider the code unfrozen, or do we want to wait until the sealing problems are fixed a

Re: [PROPOSAL] J2EEUnit donation to ASF

2001-03-28 Thread Kief Morris
Vincent Massol typed the following on 01:31 PM 3/27/2001 +0200 >Regression testing is an essential part of developing >"commercial-quality" software. JUnit is a popular testing platform, >but >is primarily designed for standard Java classes. J2EEUnit extends the >Junit API to facilitate unit test

Re: [POLL] Re: Code Sharing Concepts

2001-02-16 Thread Kief Morris
Craig R. McClanahan typed the following on 02:19 PM 2/15/2001 -0800 >My personal preferences in this regard are fairly simple -- publish APIs (or >use >existing ones where there are reasonable standards) that you promise reasonably >stable contracts for, and innovate on the implementation(s) insi

Re: [POLL] Re: Code Sharing Concepts

2001-02-16 Thread Kief Morris
[EMAIL PROTECTED] typed the following on 04:17 PM 2/15/2001 -0800 >Seriously speaking - I am very concerned with the content of the library - >I have a feeling that some people would like one book for each subject. I >think that would be a very big step backwards. > >My hope is that the "library"

Re: Test Infrastructure Project Proposal

2001-02-11 Thread Kief Morris
Doug Davis typed the following on 06:56 AM 2/11/2001 -0500 >From the junit.org website: > JUnit is a regression testing framework written by Erich > Gamma and Kent Beck. It is used by the developer who > implements unit tests in Java. > >But from by quick glances at JUnit what struck me was th

Re: Olympics (was: Re: What is Struts? (was: Re: What is Avalon?))

2001-02-10 Thread Kief Morris
>I am with you on that one, Jon. I cannot figure out why people would use >JSP when they have Servlets. I think JSP was really just to counter ASP. In an engineer's world, the technically superior product would always win, while marketing and customer demand would take a back seat to good engin

RE: What is Jakarta?

2001-02-09 Thread Kief Morris
Peter Donald typed the following on 03:42 PM 2/9/2001 +1100 >At 07:33 8/2/01 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>Even in CPAN, you can have multiple modules doing similar tasks, each with >>it's own API. And you have modules depending on other modules. > >Then again it is just a component repositor

Re: What is Jakarta?

2001-02-08 Thread Kief Morris
Ted Husted typed the following on 04:29 PM 2/7/2001 -0500 >1. We have a shared utility subproject that would host an assortment of >components. I favor this approach especially if components can be easily pulled out and used, e.g. different .jar files for the connection pool, etc. Perhaps existi