Re: Jakarta: too many similar projects?

2003-03-07 Thread Henri Gomez
Paulo Silveira wrote: Sorry not giving a link the other time. Here is Apache voting against JSR 127 long time ago. In such case we could (should) understand ASF position. Why create something in official Java APIs/Products when there is allready a good OSS alternative. It still a shame that Sun

Re: Jakarta: too many similar projects?

2003-03-07 Thread Andrew C. Oliver
I can understand it if the ASF were worried that a JSR would put the existence of the OSS project in doubt, due to the legalities of an OSS project not being able to be a JSR implementation in some cases, but not to protect their product. Why not? What is the point of having a JSR which