Re: JSR on metadata

Peter Donald wrote:
> On Mon, 9 Dec 2002 08:07, Stefano Mazzocchi wrote:
> 
>>>>JSR 175 - A Metadata Facility for the JavaTM Programming Language
>>>>
>>>>I hear that the time schedule is probably Q4-2003 (release of JDK 1.5
>>>>aka tigris),
>>>
>>>you mean tiger ? :)
>>
>>Yeah, sorry, living with jon is getting me too much exposure on
>>tigris.org :-)
> 
> 
> :)
> 
> 
>>>>might be worth keep an eye on... BTW, do we have anyone
>>>
>>>>from avalon in that expert group? in case not, are there volunteers for
>>>
>>>>that?
>>>
>>>Essentially what it comes down to is storing runtime attributes/javadoc
>>>tags in .class files. Checkout commons-attributes (or XDoclet) for an
>>>example under development.
>>
>>Do you know if those projects are talking with that JSR? it would be a
>>shame to duplicate efforts.
> 
> 
> I believe the JSR was kicked off due to these projects. ie XDoclet+EJBDoclet 
> and then BEAs version combined with .NETs attributes was where it came from. 
> However I don't think any of these guys are on the EG but they are tracking 
> it I believe and I think are going to work towards it when it comes out. 
> Essentially commons-attributes is a facade that will allow metadata to be 
> sucked out of multiple sources I think.

Great. Good to know.

If you hear about anybody on those groups (or around here) that wants to 
join the JSR, let me know and I'll try to make it happening.

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Stefano Mazzocchi                               <[email protected]>
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