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Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 06:42:45 -0500
From: Steven Caswell <steve@mungoknotwise.com>
To: Jakarta Commons Developers List <commons-dev@jakarta.apache.org>
Subject: Re: [VOTE] Promote DbUtils to Commons Proper
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+1

Quoting David Graham <grahamdavid1980@yahoo.com>:

> DbUtils exhibits all of the qualities of a component that should be in
> Commons proper:
> - It's small and focused.
> - It's API is well defined
> - It has a group of existing Jakarta committers providing code, ideas, and
> support.
> - It has good unit test coverage. It has also been tested in real world
> database applications.
> - It has automated nightly builds, website, and Maven all working
> - It has incubated in the sandbox for long enough to become stable
> 
> DbUtils is a mature component that should move to Commons proper so it can
> be released to the public.  Here's my +1.
> 
> The website has additional information:
> http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/sandbox/dbutils/index.html
> 
> Here's the component proposal for reference:
> (0) Rationale
> 
> Correct JDBC coding is time consuming and error prone.  Many
> JDBC coding tasks can be simplified with a small helper library
> that factors out the mundane resource cleanup steps.  DbUtils
> is focused on providing such a library without any heavyweight 
> framework surrounding it.
> 
> (1) Scope of the Package
> 
> This proposal is to create a package of Java utility classes for
> various types of JDBC related activity.  DbUtils will
> not be an OO representation of database objects nor will
> it be an Object/Relational framework.  It will be
> a lightweight JDBC library that helps developers write
> correct database code.
> 
> (1.5) Interaction With Other Packages
> 
> DBUtils relies only on standard Java 1.2 (or later) APIs for
> production deployment.  It utilizes the JUnit testing framework for
> developing and executing unit tests, but this is of interest only to
> developers of the component. Being dependent on Java 1.2 means that 
> this code is expected to be of JDBC 2.0 level. 
> 
> No external configuration files are utilized.
> 
> (2) Initial Source of the Package
> 
> Potential source code for this package will come from the initial 
> committers' personal libraries.
> 
> The proposed package name for the new component is
> <code>org.apache.commons.dbutils</code>.
> 
> (3)  Required Jakarta-Commons Resources
> 
> CVS Repository - New directory dbutils in the jakarta-commons CVS
> repository.
> 
> Mailing List - Discussions will take place on the general
>     commons-dev@jakarta.apache.org mailing list.  To help
>     list subscribers identify messages of interest, it is suggested that
>     the message subject of messages about this component be prefixed with
>     [dbutils].
> 
> Bugzilla - New component "DBUtils" under the "Commons" product
>     category, with appropriate version identifiers as needed.
> 
> 
> (4) Initial Committers
> 
> The initial committers on the DBUtils component shall be:
> Henri Yandell
> Steven Caswell
> Juozas Baliuka
> David Graham
> 
> 
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Steven Caswell
(Hobbit name Mungo Knotwise of Michel Delving)
steve@mungoknotwise.com


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