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| <title>Proposal for Jexl Package</title> |
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| <h1>Proposal for <em>Jexl</em> Package</h1> |
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| <h3>(0) Rationale</h3> |
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| <p>The <em>Jexl</em> package implements a simple expression language for |
| accessing Java objects. |
| </p> |
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| <h3>(1) Scope of the Package</h3> |
| <p> |
| The package will create and maintain a number of classes for |
| implementing a simple expression language and processing engine, |
| and to be distributed under the ASF license. |
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| <h3>(1.5) Interaction With Other Packages</h3> |
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| <p><em>Jexl</em> relies on standard JDK 1.2 (or later) APIs for |
| production deployment. </p> |
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| <p> |
| <i>Jexl</i> utilizes the JUnit unit testing framework for developing and |
| executing unit tests, but this is of interest only to developers of the |
| component. |
| </p> |
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| <p> |
| <i>Jexl</i> also depends on Jakarta Velocity, Commons Logging, dom4j |
| and Velocity DVSL for documentation rendering. |
| </p> |
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| <h3>(2) Initial Source of the Package</h3> |
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| <p> |
| The code base is new and uses ideas from Jakarta Velocity. |
| </p> |
| |
| <p>The proposed package name for the new component is |
| <code>org.apache.commons.jexl</code>.</p> |
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| <h3>(3) Required Jakarta-Commons Resources</h3> |
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| <ul> |
| <li>CVS Repository - New directory <code>jexl</code> in the |
| <code>jakarta-commons</code> CVS repository. All initial committers |
| are already committers on <code>jakarta-commons</code>, so no |
| additional user setups are required.</li> |
| <li>Mailing List - Discussions will take place on the general |
| <em>jakarta-commons@jakarta.apache.org</em> mailing list. To help |
| list subscribers identify messages of interest, it is suggested that |
| the message subject of messages about this component be prefixed with |
| [Jexl]. Strongly suggested.</li> |
| <li>Bugzilla - New component "Jexl" under the "Commons" product |
| category, with appropriate version identifiers as needed.</li> |
| <li>Jyve FAQ - New category "commons-jexl" (when available). </li> |
| </ul> |
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| <h3>(4) Initial Committers</h3> |
| <ul> |
| <li>Geir Magnusson Jr.</li> |
| <li>James Strachan</li> |
| </ul> |
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