On 8/27/05, Matthias Wessendorf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 8/27/05, Werner Punz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I hope it will make things easier, I do not know the CDDL but I assume > > it is some kind of LGPL derivate, > > :) think so too, but then ASF's jsf version is *free* 8-) > > > > but even if the myfaces people cannot take code directly from it, at > > least there now is a chance to check out the sources on how the RI does > > instead of having to go over the reverse engineering/blackbox testing way. > > well, on java.net there is allready the source available. So I don't > see any news in this topic, perhaps only licencing stuff changed...
That's correct ... same code, more liberal license. > > > Ideal would be if Sun could warm up to the idea to put the RI into > > something BSDish, sort of using an apache project as RI, just like they > > do it with Tomcat for the JSP/Servlet core of their stuff. > > Is Tomcat really the RI ? I think no. > Its website states out: > <snip> > Apache Tomcat is the servlet container that is used in the official > Reference Implementation for the Java Servlet and JavaServer Pages > technologies. The Java Servlet and JavaServer Pages specifications are > developed by Sun under the Java Community Process. > </snip> > Tomcat is often mis-characterized as the RI. Code from Tomcat is indeed *used* in the RI (which, for all the J2EE specs, is the J2EE SDK you can get from sun.com), and Tomcat itself has been tested with the TCKs for servlet and JSP, but it's not "the" RI. Craig
