I am OK with contributing time and effort to keep the project going, but
there is a significant amount of code here. The expertise has been squarely
in Sun's hands. I feel that we would need some knowledge transfer to make
this happen.
I am in agreement with Brett that Sun should do the right thing and finish
4.3 so that it works with Firefox 3.x. If they fail to do that, I will be
more reluctant to use Sun's technologies in the future. We are a SUN OEM
and partner, and this will hurt us.
John
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 7:40 AM, Wei Chiang <chiang.wei_at_riihonlahti.com>wrote:
>
> > What would really be nice would be to finish and release the Woodstock
> > 4.3 release so that our existing applications would be usable on
> > Firefox 3.x. I think that is the least that Sun should do to help in
> > this situation.
> I echo it.
>
> > After that, maybe transitioning Woodstock to a complete community
> > driven open source project would be beneficial. I know that I have a
> > lot of time invested in projects using Woodstock and simply dropping
> > in another component technology will not be trivial. Maybe there are
> > enough of us here that would be willing to continue the development of
> > the components package in a more open environment. I know I would be
> > willing to contribute.
> >
> And I like this idea.
>
> Wei
>
> > Brett
> >
> > Mark Dey wrote:
> >> Dear Woodstock users,
> >>
> >> On behalf of the teams involved, I apologize for the lack of
> >> communication about about the future of Woodstock. The project teams
> >> are struggling with the rather sudden reassignment of the
> >> contributing members and are researching alternatives that can help
> >> fill the gap in some way.
> >>
> >> The NetBeans level of contribution to future releases of Woodstock
> >> has been suspended. The current version of Woodstock shipping as part
> >> of VisualWeb in NetBeans 6.5 is version 4.2 and will continue to be
> >> supported as it has in prior releases.
> >>
> >> Woodstock as a java.net open source project is still active to the
> >> extent that community members are willing and able to contribute to
> >> the further development and support of the technology.
> >>
> >> For NetBeans users, there will undoubtedly be a transition period as
> >> we roll out the next generation of tools for JSF and UI components
> >> for the web. A top priority is minimizing the impact to those who are
> >> invested in the current technology. Hopefully, those who have been
> >> following the latest Woodstock developments on java.net will find the
> >> necessary level of community support to achieve their objectives.
> >>
> >> On behalf of the NetBeans team, we thank you for your understanding.
> >>
> >> - Mark Dey
> >>
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