+1 ... thanks to all the committers for pitching in and getting us this close to 1.1 final!
I also want to mention that I do appreciate all the work people have put into moving most of our core components over to the Commons. While it slowed the release of this particular product down, I do believe it is helping to accelerate work by the rest of the Java community.
The Java community now has at their disposal production-quality releases of packages like the BeanUtils, Collections, Digester, FileUpload, Validator, not to mention Lang and Logging, along with many others we never dreamed of when the Commons was founded. I'm seeing these packages crop up in products all over the net as well as in applications created by in-house teams. (Which, after all, is the point of the exercise!)
Bootstrapping the Commons is in itself a much greater accomplishment that any release of Struts could ever be. The ASF agrees, and based on the success of the Commons has started its own top level project (http://commons.apache.org/).
Of course, it would have been nice if we could have moved the packages over and managed to ship interim releases too, but hindsight is always 20:20. =:0)
So, we didn't finish the work on Resources before 1.1, but there is always 1.2. In the end, I hope that Struts becomes a true component-based framework, showing just one way that all the "cool tools" in the Commons can play well together.
-Ted.
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