+1 as well
James
----- Original Message -----
From: "Glenn Nielsen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, June 29, 2001 9:28 PM
Subject: Re: VOTE: JSR052 (JSP Standard Tag Library) RI
> +1 For jakarta-tablibs to host the JSR052 JSP Standard Tag Library
> development and EA releases.
>
> 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
>
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