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On Fri, 29 Jun 2001, 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
>
