Re: [Xdoclet-user] Next formal release of xdoclet

[Konstantin P. <kpr...@ya...>]

--- Andrew Stevens <ste...@us...>
wrote:

> I'm not so sure about the "significant", if you
> check the CVS logs
> there's only been a few people committed anything in
> the last year or
> so, and nothing for a few months now.

Well,  It seems to me that you adopted a lot of new
commiters and did some work... 
XDoclet-2 does not need much attention anyway 
(it is really simple) - so most work happens in 
plugnis project. 


> The fact that there wasn't an easy migration route
> (e.g. a compatibility
> wrapper XJavadoc metadata provider and .xdt
> templating support) for the
> existing modules didn't help v2's cause; we've still
> got a number that
> only exist in the old version, so many people can't
> move to the new
> one.  And I don't have time (or inclination) to
> learn any more scripting
> languages that I'm not going to use anywhere else. 
> Heck, work's keeping
> me so busy I don't even have time to hack around on
> PseudoQ[1] as much
> as I'd like...

Well, .xdt templating was dropped because it was .xdt
templating - to be honest it's pretty ugly ( though
it inspired jelly ) 

Now there are jelly/velocity/freemarker - chances are
you are using some of them anyway. 

And it is true that EJB suport (with all the different
servers)  is incomplete - but this changes slowly 
( there is a guy with BEA as use case, so he puts some
work inside ) 

As always,  all the commiters of XD1 are welcome to 
hack on xdoclet-2 plugins.


> Besides, technology moves on.  With the new J2EE
> stuff (and other
> frameworks) using annotations for a lot of the
> things XDoclet used to
> help with, I suspect it's only a matter or time
> before there's little
> need for it any more.

Well, everything becomes obsolete sometimes. For now, 
not every big company even thinks aout moving to 
java 1.5...  So xdoclet is  to stay for couple of
years.  

BTW, could you update 
http://xdoclet.sourceforge.net/xdoclet/status.html

so it reflects actual status of xdoclet-2 ? 
( in production ) 
regards,



----[ Konstantin Pribluda http://www.pribluda.de ]----------------
Still using XDoclet 1.x?  XDoclet 2 is released and of production quality.
check it out: http://xdoclet.codehaus.org

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