[seam-dev] Re: where is jboss el?

[Dan Allen]

On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 6:15 PM, Dan Allen <dan.j.allen at gmail.com> wrote:

> As we organize Seam 3 and the examples, I find myself asking two questions:
>
> - Where is JBoss EL hosted and why is it not listed as a project at
> jboss.org?
> - Why are we not using JBoss EL 2.0? It appears that Norman and Pete have
> both tagged a 2.0 release, so why are we not using it?
>
> Also, I am trying to figure out where the EL 1.3 spec is being defined and
> what the status of JBoss EL is in supporting that spec. This seems to be a
> pretty critical piece of the puzzle and thus it should be more well defined.


Looks like the EL 1.3 spec is really just going to be a maintenance release
of JSR-245 (JSP 2.1). It seems pretty lame to me that a new JSR was not
created, but given how long these things can take, I can appreciate it was
done so we can see this feature in Java EE 6. FTW.

http://blogs.sun.com/kchung/entry/jsr_245_mr_part_i
http://jcp.org/aboutJava/communityprocess/maintenance/jsr245/245-MR2_2.html

-Dan

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