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Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 10:25:59 -0500
From: Berin Loritsch <bloritsch@d-haven.org>
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Giacomo Pati wrote:
> 
> Vadim brought up the idea to contribute the Cocoon Event package 
> replacement (RunnableManager) to Excalibur. Personally, I'm not sure 
> about it as in the end we have the Event package back here in a 
> different form. So, maybe you guys have a look at it at 
> http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/cocoon/trunk/src/java/org/apache/cocoon/components/thread/ 
> and give us your thoughts about it.

I can take a look at it...

> 
> Honestly, I didn't find the rason why the Event package has been 
> deprecated at all (and I just took it as a community decission I've not 
> followed)

Mainly because there is a much better tested version of it over at
http://dist.d-haven.org/d-haven-event/
http://api.d-haven.org/event/
http://scm.d-haven.org/svn/d-haven/trunk/event/

which is pretty robust, and the latest version of it has fixed some
long time assumptions that the old Event package lived under.

Since I am about the only one really maintaining the Event package,
I reworked it so that it is compatible with Java5, but implemented
with Java 1.4 (I had to remove the name conflict for Queue).  I also
reimplemented a lot of the Command package stuff so that it really
did what it was advertising.

In the end, it just seemed better to use that rather than maintaining
a lesser version here that barely had any tests.

The main reason I started the fork of Event was to teach myself TDD.
In the process I discovered a few things wrong with the old code,
and had to make some incompatible changes to fix them.  Since what I
had turned out so well, I released it.

-- 

"Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to 
build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to 
produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning."
                 - Rich Cook

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