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Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2001 14:40:05 -0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)
From: Shawn Bayern <bayern@essentially.net>
To: <taglibs-dev@jakarta.apache.org>
Subject: Re: VOTE: JSR052 (JSP Standard Tag Library) RI
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Hi everyone.

As you could probably guess, my vote is +1.

I'm personally looking forward to getting as much feedback as possible on
the JSPTL RI from the Jakarta Taglibs community -- both developers and
users.  Hosting the RI here would be an excellent way to achieve that.

The wealth of experience that this group has to offer has already helped
to shape the JSR052 agenda, and I think an ongoing relationship would be
valuable to everyone involved.

Regards,

Shawn

On Fri, 29 Jun 2001, Pierre Delisle wrote:

> All,
>
> As many of you know, I am a committer on the jakarta-taglibs
> project and also happen to be a co-lead of the JSR052 Expert
> Group (EG) (http://www.jcp.org/jsr/detail/52.jsp) that is
> currently working on specifying a standard tag library for the
> JSP specification.
>
> The JSR052 EG has agreed to use the Open Source model for the
> development and distribution of the Reference Implementation
> (RI) of the JSR052 specification (aka JSPTL).
>
> There is no specification ready yet for JSR052.  However, rather than
> having to wait until a specification is ready for public consumption
> (Public Review is planned for November 2001), the 052 EG has agreed to
> go with an Early Access (EA) program.  The goal of this EA program is
> to keep the community informed of the EG's progress as well as to give
> the community a chance to experiment with the standard tag library
> early in the specification process so that valuable feedback can
> quickly be channelled back to the Expert Group.
>
> The JSR052 EG sees this as a great opportunity and would like to ask
> the privilege to host its work within the jakarta-taglibs
> project.
>
> Until the 052 spec is made public, the plan is to host the early
> access work within a taglib named "jsptl-ea". Once the spec
> is officially released for public review, the development
> work would then migrate to a taglib called "jsptl".
>
> A first code drop for the Early Access program is now ready
> for integration within jakarta-taglibs. This first code drop
> includes the following functionality:
>     - iterator tags
>     - conditional tags
>     - expression language support
>     - two implementations of an expression language
>          - SPEL (Simplest Possible Expression Language)
>          - JPath
>     - tag library validators
>
> Shawn Bayern of the 052 EG is a committer to jakarta-taglibs
> and is the JSPTL RI lead. Shawn, myself, as well as other members
> of the EG will be monitoring the taglibs-user and taglibs-dev aliases
> to provide support as well as to gather feedback on this Early Acces
> release.
>
> Thanks for your consideration,
>
>     -- Pierre