Ok, so I can move my data-source back into struts and acquire a reference to it by doing ... hrm ... I'll look it up =)
Thanks - sorry for the ... commotion! Eddie ----- Original Message ----- From: "Craig R. McClanahan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Struts Users Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 3:49 PM Subject: RE: Struts Connection Pool Maturity - Ted - you out there? > In the particular case of the Espresso connection pool, I didn't know > about it at the time. In the particular case of Poolman, it has (well, > now it is really "had") a single developer instead of a community, and an > LGPL license to boot. (Talk to RMS about why he says the Apache license > is evil -- I'm not interested in getting involved in that discussion.) > > Feel free to integrate Struts into anything you like -- that is the > fundamental value proposition of the Apache License. For the stuff > packaged *inside* Struts, I'm personally more comfortable with Apache > based code, where I know the other developers and the support culture > around it. > > For outside code, given license compatibility and a willingness of others > to support it (to *my* quality standards, since Struts is pretty closely > associated with *my* name :-), I'm OK with it, but I'd usually rather just > leave it out and let others provide integrated packages. (FWIW, in > Struts 1.1 the GenericDataSource class is a wrapper around the commons-dbcp > connection pool, which is also going to be used in Tomcat 4.1). > > Craig > > > On Wed, 24 Apr 2002, Sandra Cann wrote: > > > Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 16:04:33 -0400 > > From: Sandra Cann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Reply-To: Struts Users Mailing List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: Struts Users Mailing List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Subject: RE: Struts Connection Pool Maturity - Ted - you out there? > > > > snip > > > I've been using Poolman just fine, but would like to switch to > > > the struts pool if it is at a maturity-level that would make that > > > possible. > > > > Perhaps I misunderstanding something here? I would like to ask why Struts > > didn't just incorporate Poolman or Expresso's Connection pooling instead of > > developing another? > > > > i.e. Expresso's has been around since '96 and is certainly stable! It's an > > Apache Style license so the code is certainly open source compatible with > > Struts Apache license. > > > > This brings up for me a larger question I am not clear on.... > > > > What is Struts view on building on/integrating/contributing with third party > > open source projects and not reinventing wheels? > > > > With the shoe on the other foot we support other open source projects > > (including several Apache projects) by building on them and thus have an > > area in Expresso's CVS for third party libraries which is where Struts > > resides. This benefits the open source movement by making projects stronger > > and increasing mindshare and strengthening their acceptance as open > > standards. I'm sure you'll agree the Expresso community has contributed in > > positive ways to the Struts code and community. > > > > I look forward to hearing back. > > > > -- > > Sandra Cann > > http://www.jcorporate.com > > Open Standards based Java components > > > > "Our separation from each other is an optical illusion of consciousness." > > (Albert Einstein) > > > > > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
