This makes it easy for the apps to extend a common Maven project.xml. We could still offer a single zip/tarball with all the applications WARs within.
/apps - examples - mailreader - tilesPortal - userdb
Now that I say it, the same approach might conceivably be used for el, taglibs, and faces.
/taglibs - classic - el - faces
But, the problem with binding the taglib packages too closely is that they would all have to be distribution-ready before we did a new roll of any. So, an ongoing refactoring in the "classic" taglibs could block a quick release of the "faces" taglib.
I really want to try and avoid the hydraulic dependencies of the 1.1 era, where we had to have everything ready to release all at once :(
I think you've already made the case for not pushing all the taglibs things together just because they are the same technology. struts-faces should be its own thing, I'm pretty certain.
Joe suggested combining opt-el with opt-taglibs, though we'd have to be careful which dependencies are used to build what. (Which makes me think they are not the same deliverable. el might just have a dependency on taglib.) I don't actually use either one much myself, so I have no preferences myself.
Whether the "classic" and "el" taglibs are one chunk or two isn't hugely important to me either -- I would prefer that this decision be made by developers who've done more work on that code to date. However, I did find that when I patched o.a.s.t.html.JavascriptValidator, I had to go and make a corresponding change in the EL version. I suspect that changes in those two libraries are going to track pretty tightly. But like I said, I'm not pushing for this; just floating it...
Joe
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