on 2/4/00 7:43 AM, Crook, Charles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Would you consider enhydra ( www.enhydra.org ) as a viable choice to
> weblogic? Or is it an open-source competitor to jakarta/tomcat, or are they
> complementary?
Could you please just go and take the time to read their website to get the
facts?
> I see features described in enhydra that don't seem to be
> available within the world of tomcat/ecs/coccoon ( most notably, ejb ),
I find it funny that in your above bundle of "world" technologies, you
bundled three totally unrelated technologies together. Tomcat is a servlet
engine. ECS is a tag generation library and Cocoon is an XML/XSL processor.
EJB is even more totally unrelated.
For what it is worth, I host the EJBoss mailing lists and CVS on Clear Ink
machines. The same machines that Turbine, ECS, Apache JServ, Village, Town,
Jyve, James, JMeter, etc are hosted.
> yet
> I also sense an inherent dependency upon enhydra's own classes ;
> vendor-specific?
This comment is left over from your days of working with proprietary
commercial no-source code. This doesn't apply in todays non-proprietary,
non-commercial with source Open Source world.
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I have looked at Enhydra and at the time, it was GPL. Now they have a new
license, the EPL which I'm also not that fond of. I especially don't like
this:
<http://www.enhydra.org/software/license/index.html>
"Any modification to the Enhydra core code (explicitly at the Java package
level) must be made available to Enhydra.org for possible inclusion in the
base product."
The reason is that I want to be able to write commercial extensions to the
core...or even parts of the core and be able to sell it without giving back
the source code. I should be given that right if I wrote things. I give
enough to the OS community, I should be able to take a little back.
I'm also not fond of XMLC methodology, I prefer the Freemarker/Webmacro way
of doing things. I know a lot of people like XMLC, but personally, I see it
as simply using XML for something that it shouldn't be used for. I also like
to try to avoid the pre-compiling/parsing that goes on. It was removed from
Java for a reason...lets not bring it back.
-jon
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