Hi Andrew, On Thu, 2008-07-31 at 22:52 +0100, Andrew John Hughes wrote: > It seems Classpath includes the full set of interfaces for the Java > Transaction API: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_Transaction_API > > while the J2SE spec. only prescribes three exceptions used by CORBA: > > http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/javax/transaction/package-summary.html > > They were (apparently) added by Warren Levy and Tom Tromey back in 2001. Wow, we were quick and early back in the day :) > Gentoo currently has a JTA package that uses the version of these > interfaces from Sun. These still seem to under a proprietary license > (though IANAL): > > http://java.sun.com/javaee/technologies/jta/ > > even though there is presumably also a GPL version in Glassfish. There is a version under dual license CDDL or GPL + Classpath exception at: https://glassfish.dev.java.net/source/browse/glassfish/transaction-api/src/ > How do other distributions handle this? Is it worth our while moving > these out of GNU Classpath into a separate package so people can use > the Free Classpath versions? I am unsure. I doubt any other distro ships the proprietary version. Why does Gentoo when (multiple) free versions are available? Feel free to create a little subpackage of javax.transaction.* for distribution if you feel it would be useful to people. It is just interface (constants) and exceptions, no real code, so I doubt anything in it will change much. Cheers, Mark
