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From: Patrick Calahan <pcal@bea.com>
Subject: RE: Java API for Metadata
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Right, I think that's the only part of the build that hasn't been teased 
out yet.  Will fix that, thanks.
-p

At 04:42 PM 3/31/2004 +0900, Ias wrote:
>Thanks for your great work. I just feel like introducing it to my article in
>May issue of Microsoftware, a Korean journal for software developers.
>
>By the way, I actually failed to build JAM first. I figured it out by adding
>
>     <ant dir='..' target='jsr173_api.jar' inheritAll='false' />
>
>to jsr173 target in build.xml for JAM. (I guess it was also because I hadn't
>built xmlbeans before building JAM.)
>
>Regards,
>
>Ias
>
>=========================================================
>Lee, Changshin (Korean name)
>Ias (International name)
>                Company Web Site: http://www.tmax.co.kr
>                Personal Web Site: http://www.iasandcb.pe.kr
>---------------------------------------------------------
>JSR 201, 204, 222 and 224 Expert Group Member
>Apache Web Services Project Member
>R&D Center
>Tmax Soft, Inc.
>=========================================================
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Patrick Calahan [mailto:pcal@bea.com]
> > Sent: Saturday, March 27, 2004 12:24 PM
> > To: geronimo-dev@incubator.apache.org
> > Subject: JAM: Java API for Metadata
> >
> > Hello everyone.  I am a committer on Xml-Beans, another
> > project currently in the Apache Incubator.  As part of my
> > work there, I have developed an API for representing Java
> > types and their associated metadata which I believe would be
> > of general use to the community.
> >
> > The API is called 'JAM' - the Java API for Metadata.  On the
> > surface, it looks quite a bit like Reflection or the Doclet
> > API, but it affords a greater level of flexibility and
> > convenience, and in particular provides solutions for a
> > number of thorny problems posed by JSR175.
> >
> > I have had a few discussions with some folks on
> > general@incubator.apache.org about possibly spinning JAM up
> > as an independent project from xbeans.  It was suggested that
> > it would be useful to test the waters in some other projects
> > such as Geronimo to see if JAM would indeed be generally
> > useful.  So, here I am testing. :)
> >
> > Anyway, if you want more gory details, I have temporarily
> > posted some white papers and the API docs here:
> >
> > http://www.pcal.net/jam
> >
> > Any feedback is more than welcome.
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > -Patrick
> >