Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-jakarta-commons-dev-archive@apache.org Received: (qmail 81849 invoked from network); 26 Apr 2002 17:14:37 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO nagoya.betaversion.org) (192.18.49.131) by daedalus.apache.org with SMTP; 26 Apr 2002 17:14:37 -0000 Received: (qmail 2331 invoked by uid 97); 26 Apr 2002 17:14:37 -0000 Delivered-To: qmlist-jakarta-archive-commons-dev@jakarta.apache.org Received: (qmail 2300 invoked by uid 97); 26 Apr 2002 17:14:36 -0000 Mailing-List: contact commons-dev-help@jakarta.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Help: List-Post: List-Id: "Jakarta Commons Developers List" Reply-To: "Jakarta Commons Developers List" Delivered-To: mailing list commons-dev@jakarta.apache.org Received: (qmail 2289 invoked from network); 26 Apr 2002 17:14:36 -0000 Message-ID: <3CC98AFB.3020007@apache.org> Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 13:14:35 -0400 From: Berin Loritsch User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0rc1) Gecko/20020417 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jakarta Commons Developers List Subject: Re: [pool] PROPOSAL: add collecting of statistics to pool implementations References: <116701c1ed3c$7f715900$66c9010a@mail2world.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Rating: daedalus.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N X-Spam-Rating: daedalus.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N otisg wrote: > Hello, > > >>If Avalon is a macro view made up of micro components, and Commons is >>micro components, when will we hit a stage where we have a redundant >>micro-components project, and how should this be dealt with? >> >>My definition of macro vs micro is probably best expressed as giving >>someone a lego kit in a box versus giving someone lots of lego bricks. > > In > >>the former there is a defined way to build the system, though you can > > play > >>with it. In the latter it's entirely up to you. > > > This is an obvious question to ask. > If Excalibur, which is a part of Avalon, is a set of micro components, > why nor merge them with Commons? From another email I see that a group > of people (Avalon) already tried doing that a while ago, but failed, so > Commons was created. > I wouldn't go so far as to say we failed in the mission. I would say we failed to convince the PMC that commons wasn't necessary with Excalibur. -- "They that give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: For additional commands, e-mail: