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From: "Howard M. Lewis Ship" <hlship@comcast.net>
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Subject: RE: [BCEL] and Javassist
Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 19:51:16 -0400
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dain Sundstrom [mailto:dain@coredevelopers.net]=20
> Sent: Friday, August 22, 2003 6:31 PM
> To: geronimo-dev@incubator.apache.org
> Subject: Re: [BCEL] and Javassist
>=20
>=20
> Except Java Assist is LGPL and controlled by Marc Fleury, who=20
> definitely does not want to see this project succeed.

It's living at JBoss, but is maintained by Shigeru Chiba, not Fleury.

>=20
> To be honest, I just want a simple solution to the problem, but it=20
> needs to be fast otherwise we can just use reflection.  If there is=20
> some (free) tool out there that we can use that does this in=20
> 4 line of=20
> code that would be cool, but I really, really, really don't=20
> want to get=20
> into a huge AOP discussion right now.  We have a fairly small set of=20
> places we need to generate byte code, and we especially don't need to=20
> be side tracked into an exploration into AOP frameworks.

Javassist has a lot of functionality we/I don't need (for Geronimo, for =
Hivemind, for Tapestry), but
the ease-of-use of the subset we do need is tremendous.

Just my two cents; I don't have the bandwidth to contribute to Geronimo =
in any meaningful way.

>=20
>

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Howard M. Lewis Ship
Creator, Tapestry: Java Web Components
http://jakarta.apache.org/tapestry
http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/sandbox/hivemind/
http://javatapestry.blogspot.com