[Json-rpc-java] Announcing jabsorb, a new JSON-RPC library!

[ant elder]

Forking this project seems a great shame to me.

Whats happened so far with jabsorb may have been beneficial, provocatively
prompting changes and bringing fresh air into the project that can only be
good, but a permanent fork will cause ill will and bad feelings and is going
to fragment the user community which could easily result in doing more harm
than good. It will also likely reduce the size of the community as with all
the other json toolkits and libraries available these days some users will
inevitably instead of moving to jabsorb end up moving completely away.

Reading the emails in this thread it sounds like you all are open to working
together, as a json-rpc-java user I urge you all to try hard to make that
happen and to keep json-rpc-java going all working together on the single
project.

   ...ant

On 9/15/07, Arthur Blake <arthur.blake at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> We are pleased to announce *jabsorb <http://code.google.com/p/jabsorb>*, a
> new Java to JavaScript JSON-RPC library!
>
> The project goal for *jabsorb* is to maintain (and hopefully improve) the
> practicality and beautiful simplicity that makes
> JSON-RPC-Java<http://oss.metaparadigm.com/jsonrpc/>a great library,
> while also adding new common sense features, more test
> cases, and more documentation to make the library better for everyone.
>
> *jabsorb* also aims to add more advanced ORB features, while maintaining
> complete backward compatibility to the JSON-RPC specification when these
> advanced features are not used. We are also going to submit some of these
> new features for consideration into the JSON-RPC specification itself
> (especially circular references support.)
>
> jabsorb <http://code.google.com/p/jabsorb> is a fork of the
> JSON-RPC-Java<http://oss.metaparadigm.com/jsonrpc/>library.
>
> Why are we forking?
>
> 1. JSON-RPC-Java has not had a release Since March 28, 2006 and that's
> about
> a year and a half at the time of this writing.
>
> In that time, some new changes and features have been checked into the CVS
> (and now SVN) trunk, but no official or unofficial releases have been
> made.
>
> Many great ideas and suggestions have been posted to the mailing list, and
> it appears that many people are running on their own locally modified
> copies
> of the library– there doesn't seem to be any cohesive strategy for getting
> the ideas into the library in a timely fashion.
>
> *jabsorb* has been created to incorporate the best of these suggested
> features with a much tighter and faster build/release cycle.
>
> We hope to have a new build released on the order of every 1 to 3 months.
>
> 2. We honestly don't know where Michael Clark (the JSON-RPC-Java project
> lead) is, or what happened to him! We sincerely hope he is OK, but he has
> not responded to any posts on the mailing list for well over a month, nor
> has he responded to personal email regarding the direction of the library.
> There does not seem to be any other point of control of the library and it
> all appears to be underneath the corporate umbrella of metaparadigm.
>
> *jabsorb* is hosted by google code with multiple owners.
>
> Here are the new features that we will be releasing very shortly:
>
> *jabsorb 1.1* The goal of this release is to have a baseline that is a
> fork
> of the JSON-RPC-Java library we all know and love, with all the features
> from the latest unreleased SVN trunk from the parent library, along with
> some basic clean up and a few minor new useful features:
>
>    1. Support for JSONObject and JSONArray raw serializers (this is an
>    unreleased JSON-RPC-Java feature.)
>    2. Support for SLF4J logging so that user's may have a choice of the
>    underlying Java Logging System (this is an unreleased JSON-RPC-Java
>    feature.)
>    3. Repackage code into org.jabsorb package space.
>    4. Add much more Javadoc and comments in the code and clean up code
>    style.
>    5. Upgrade to latest json.org library which has many bug fixes and
>    nice features.
>    6. Json pretty printing in DEBUG output (greatly aids debugging.)
>    7. Optional GZIP compression integrated into JSONRpcServlet.
>    8. Caching of list method calls for Callable References.
>    9. More unit tests.
>
> *jabsorb 1.2* This release will introduce some significant new features:
>
>    1. Circular References. This has been requested for quite some time,
>    and we think we have a winner implementation!
>    2. Security Policy. A flexible framework to better secure your server
>    exposed objects and method.
>    3. Constructors. A way to construct objects directly via json-rpc.
>    4. JSONMap and JSONList. Alternative JSON containers with new
>    serializers for simplifying the passing of Maps and Lists.
>    5. Remote Map. Allows an array to have a server-side function called
>    on each element with one request-response pair.
>
> We are putting the finishing touched on the 1.1 release right now, and
> expect to have a build within the next week.
>
> Some of the 1.2 features are done as well, and we are expecting to have
> the
> first 1.2 release build within a month after the 1.1 release, with a test
> release possibly even sooner.
>
> Currently the *jabsorb* team consists of Arthur Blake and William Becker.
> Raziel Alvarez has shown some interest and minor commitment in
> contributing
> as well.
>
> For the time being, I will be the self proclaimed benevolent dictator with
> William as a close backup.
>
> We welcome ideas and input from anyone who wants to contribute.
> Contributions will be analyzed by the team, in the benevolent dictator
> <
> http://producingoss.com/html-chunk/social-infrastructure.html#benevolant-dictator
> >style
> of open source project management.
> {This is a copy of the original announcement made on my blog at
>
> http://arthurblake.wordpress.com/2007/09/14/announcing-jabsorb-a-new-json-rpc-library/
> }
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