[modules-discuss] questions on status

[Stephen J. McConnell]

To the 277 community at large:

Some questions on status:

  (a) The comments below reference a pending strawman document, 
      however, about 5 months ago another strawman document was 
      referenced (the service and service provider support 
      document) but that document was restricted to EG members
      pending Sanley Ho's resolution of JCP rules via a request for 
      clarification to the JCP PMO.  I would like to know if 
      the JCP PMO raised any issues that would prevent publication, 
      and if so, what those issues were?  

  (b) Will the interoperability strawman be subject to the same 
      closed review process or can we expect imminent publication
      without legal constraint?

  (c) Have any actions been taken to eliminate the requirement 
      for people interested in JSR 277 to accept the license 
      constraints associated with the initial draft specification 
      document (this has been and remains an issue in terms of 
      engaging a broader FOSS community in the evaluation of the 
      277 work)?  In particular - can be look forward to the 
      publication of the second edition of the draft specification
      under the GPL?

  (d) Is anyone on the 277 EG working with the IcedTea project 
      to establish an installable modules prototype?  In my opinion
      a working distribution of the modules system would be very
      valuable and generate a greater level of community 
      involvement.

Cheers, Steve.


On Fri, 2007-09-07 at 13:27 +0930, Stanley M. Ho wrote:
> Hi Glyn,
> 
> The work is in progress, and there are ongoing prototypings to figure 
> out how it should work and to also validate the overall approach. I
> will send out the strawman proposal for the EG to review and discuss
> when it is ready. Interoperability is definitely something that I
> would like to address before this JSR goes public review.
> 
> - Stanley
> 
> 
> Glyn Normington wrote: 
> > 
> > Hi Stanley 
> > 
> > Please could you provide an update on your work on interoperation 
> > between JSR 277 and JSR 291? 
> > 
> > If the work is still in progress, how's it coming along and roughly
> when 
> > might there be a strawman proposal to review? 
> > 
> > Thanks, 
> > 
> > Glyn
> 


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