----- Original Message -----
From: Diethelm Guallar, Gonzalo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: 'Turbine' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, September 11, 2000 1:13 PM
Subject: RE: Subclassing Turbine
> > Is there something that you are trying to accomplish that it currently
> > doesn't do? If so, then it is probably better to provide that
> > functionality
> > within Turbine.java itself so that other people can take
> > advantage of it.
>
> Ok, for one thing, I would like to put configuration information
> in a separate .properties file, and not have to touch Turbine's.
>
I do not see why you need to subclass Turbine in order to include more
properties files in your app.
> Also, I guess it could become important at some point to show
> a "corporate" face by providing a corporate servlet as the entry
> point to the app architecture...
and
> but they might feel more
> comfortable thinking they are using a "company-supported" servlet
> as the basis for their app (not that this means much in reality,
> but I've seen corporate minds working this way...)
>
There is nothing in the license that says you can't change the name of the
Turbine servlet and recompile. Though again I see no need to do so. You
can use aliases. And I suppose since we have not declared Turbine final,
you could provide an empty class that extends Turbine. But there is no
reason to override anything.
> We would still be telling our
> customers we use Turbine, and we would still give them the full
> source code for Turbine, of course,
You are not required to provide full source code to your clients, though I
would think your clients would desire it. I would recommend letting your
clients know you are using an opensource product. The APL is pretty
lenient, but it still contains some restrictions. For example, it does not
allow them to rip the copyright statement off the source, etc. You are
better off letting them know up front what those restrictions are.
John McNally
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