Here's a bit of good news -- the early release of JSR052 is to be hosted at Jakarta Taglibs! Of course, they have to finish voting for it to be official, but the +1's are flying! Pierre Delisle wrote: All, As many of you know, I am a committer on the jakarta-taglibs project and also happen to be a co-lead of the JSR052 Expert Group (EG) (http://www.jcp.org/jsr/detail/52.jsp) that is currently working on specifying a standard tag library for the JSP specification. The JSR052 EG has agreed to use the Open Source model for the development and distribution of the Reference Implementation (RI) of the JSR052 specification (aka JSPTL). There is no specification ready yet for JSR052. However, rather than having to wait until a specification is ready for public consumption (Public Review is planned for November 2001), the 052 EG has agreed to go with an Early Access (EA) program. The goal of this EA program is to keep the community informed of the EG's progress as well as to give the community a chance to experiment with the standard tag library early in the specification process so that valuable feedback can quickly be channelled back to the Expert Group. The JSR052 EG sees this as a great opportunity and would like to ask the privilege to host its work within the jakarta-taglibs project. Until the 052 spec is made public, the plan is to host the early access work within a taglib named "jsptl-ea". Once the spec is officially released for public review, the development work would then migrate to a taglib called "jsptl". A first code drop for the Early Access program is now ready for integration within jakarta-taglibs. This first code drop includes the following functionality: - iterator tags - conditional tags - expression language support - two implementations of an expression language - SPEL (Simplest Possible Expression Language) - JPath - tag library validators Shawn Bayern of the 052 EG is a committer to jakarta-taglibs and is the JSPTL RI lead. Shawn, myself, as well as other members of the EG will be monitoring the taglibs-user and taglibs-dev aliases to provide support as well as to gather feedback on this Early Acces release. Thanks for your consideration, -- Pierre
All, As many of you know, I am a committer on the jakarta-taglibs project and also happen to be a co-lead of the JSR052 Expert Group (EG) (http://www.jcp.org/jsr/detail/52.jsp) that is currently working on specifying a standard tag library for the JSP specification. The JSR052 EG has agreed to use the Open Source model for the development and distribution of the Reference Implementation (RI) of the JSR052 specification (aka JSPTL). There is no specification ready yet for JSR052. However, rather than having to wait until a specification is ready for public consumption (Public Review is planned for November 2001), the 052 EG has agreed to go with an Early Access (EA) program. The goal of this EA program is to keep the community informed of the EG's progress as well as to give the community a chance to experiment with the standard tag library early in the specification process so that valuable feedback can quickly be channelled back to the Expert Group. The JSR052 EG sees this as a great opportunity and would like to ask the privilege to host its work within the jakarta-taglibs project. Until the 052 spec is made public, the plan is to host the early access work within a taglib named "jsptl-ea". Once the spec is officially released for public review, the development work would then migrate to a taglib called "jsptl". A first code drop for the Early Access program is now ready for integration within jakarta-taglibs. This first code drop includes the following functionality: - iterator tags - conditional tags - expression language support - two implementations of an expression language - SPEL (Simplest Possible Expression Language) - JPath - tag library validators Shawn Bayern of the 052 EG is a committer to jakarta-taglibs and is the JSPTL RI lead. Shawn, myself, as well as other members of the EG will be monitoring the taglibs-user and taglibs-dev aliases to provide support as well as to gather feedback on this Early Acces release. Thanks for your consideration, -- Pierre
