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 <h1>Proposal for <em>Pool</em> Package</h1>
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 <h3>(0) Rationale</h3>
 <p>
    Often a Java application makes use of instances or resources that
    are expensive to create or that need to be limited due to
    external constraints.  Database and other network connections are
    leading, although certainly not the only examples of this
    situation. A pool of instances can be helpful in these circumstances.
 </p>
 <p>
    A Commons package for object pooling would give committers an
    opportunity to coordinate their efforts and create and maintain an
    efficient, feature-rich package under the ASF licence.
 </p>

 <h3>(1) Scope of the Package</h3>
 <p>
    The package will create and maintain an object (instance) pooling
    package to be distributed under the ASF license.
 </p>
 <p>
    The package should support a variety of pool implementations, but
    encourage support of an interface that makes these implementations
    interchangeable.
 </p>

 <h3>(1.5) Interaction With Other Packages</h3>

 <p><em>Pool</em> relies upon on standard JDK 1.2 (or later) and
 the Commons-Collections APIs for production deployment.  It utilizes the
 JUnit unit testing framework for developing and executing unit tests, but
 this is of interest only to developers of the component.  Pool
 will also be a dependency for several future proposed components
 for the Jakarta Commons subproject.

 <p>No external configuration files are utilized.</p>

 <h3>(2) Initial Source of the Package</h3>

 <p>
    The initial codebase was contributed by Rodney Waldhoff from
    a working project and can be distributed under the Apache license.
 </p>

 <p>The proposed package name for the new component is
 <code>org.apache.commons.pool</code>.</p>


 <h3>(3)  Required Jakarta-Commons Resources</h3>

 <ul>
 <li>CVS Repository - New directory <code>pool</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
     [Pool].</li>
 <li>Bugzilla - New component "Pool" under the "Commons" product
     category, with appropriate version identifiers as needed.</li>
 <li>Jyve FAQ - New category "commons-pool" (when available).
 </ul>


 <h3>(4) Initial Committers</h3>
 <ul>
    <li>Morgan Delagrange</li>
    <li>Geir Magnusson Jr.</li>
    <li>Craig R. McClanahan</li>
    <li>Rodney Waldhoff</li>
    <li>David Weinrich</li>
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	<html>
	<head>
	<title>Proposal for Pool Package</title>
	</head>
	<body bgcolor="white">

	<div align="center">
	<h1>Proposal for <em>Pool</em> Package</h1>
	</div>

	<h3>(0) Rationale</h3>
	<p>
	Often a Java application makes use of instances or resources that
	are expensive to create or that need to be limited due to
	external constraints. Database and other network connections are
	leading, although certainly not the only examples of this
	situation. A pool of instances can be helpful in these circumstances.
	</p>
	<p>
	A Commons package for object pooling would give committers an
	opportunity to coordinate their efforts and create and maintain an
	efficient, feature-rich package under the ASF licence.
	</p>

	<h3>(1) Scope of the Package</h3>
	<p>
	The package will create and maintain an object (instance) pooling
	package to be distributed under the ASF license.
	</p>
	<p>
	The package should support a variety of pool implementations, but
	encourage support of an interface that makes these implementations
	interchangeable.
	</p>

	<h3>(1.5) Interaction With Other Packages</h3>

	<p><em>Pool</em> relies upon on standard JDK 1.2 (or later) and
	the Commons-Collections APIs for production deployment. It utilizes the
	JUnit unit testing framework for developing and executing unit tests, but
	this is of interest only to developers of the component. Pool
	will also be a dependency for several future proposed components
	for the Jakarta Commons subproject.

	<p>No external configuration files are utilized.</p>

	<h3>(2) Initial Source of the Package</h3>

	<p>
	The initial codebase was contributed by Rodney Waldhoff from
	a working project and can be distributed under the Apache license.
	</p>

	<p>The proposed package name for the new component is
	<code>org.apache.commons.pool</code>.</p>


	<h3>(3) Required Jakarta-Commons Resources</h3>

	<ul>
	<li>CVS Repository - New directory <code>pool</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
	[Pool].</li>
	<li>Bugzilla - New component "Pool" under the "Commons" product
	category, with appropriate version identifiers as needed.</li>
	<li>Jyve FAQ - New category "commons-pool" (when available).
	</ul>


	<h3>(4) Initial Committers</h3>
	<ul>
	<li>Morgan Delagrange</li>
	<li>Geir Magnusson Jr.</li>
	<li>Craig R. McClanahan</li>
	<li>Rodney Waldhoff</li>
	<li>David Weinrich</li>
	</ul>
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