svn commit: r1909 - development/laboratory/spells/axis

Niclas Hedhman niclas at hedhman.org
Mon Feb 28 22:21:23 EST 2005


On Tuesday 01 March 2005 01:07, Mansour Raad wrote:
> Niclas,
>
> Did not know that the references in the Geronimo project were not intended
> for production. This was just laziness on my part to the enable the plugin
> user to be up an running fairly quickly, without having to explicitly
> download from the sun site the "real" artifact and place them in the local
> repo. Actually, That what I had first and describe in the README file
> before switching. So what you are saying is that using the alias it would
> be OK for compilation but not for production. So for the latter, the end
> user has to download the artifact explicitly and place it in the local
> repo, or DPML can host these artifact, not sure of the legal aspect of
> that.

I have not checked the quality for all the stuff in Geronimo, but I did for 
Javamail, and it is not complete. I thought at the time that they had copied 
the source (perhaps due to some agreement with Sun), but got the message from 
the Geronimo group that it was a matter of clean-room re-implementation of 
the specifications, but that they were not complete beyond the method 
signatures, and mileage would vary.

So, I am saying that they shouldn't be used on production systems, and this 
creates a problem in Magic, since it fills all kind of places with the 
reference, and it may not be simple to exchange it later, and that maybe we 
should introduce some support in Magic for dealing explicitly with this type 
of scenario.

I don't have a recommendation for you at this point, but I think that as long 
as you are in the Lab, you can do whatever you feel is most comfortable.


Cheers
Niclas



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