Re: [atf-dev] JavaXPCOM ownership

[Olivier Rossel <olivier.rossel@xxxxxxxxx>]

[Originaly posted on the mailing-list atf-dev]
[Cross-posted on the mozSwing mailing list]

I base my projects on JavaXPCOM and the disappearance of that project
would be extreme bad news.

Please discuss the details of the new status of JavaXPCOM publicly (on
this list or on any other public medium) so users can provide
feedback.

On Saturday, September 5, 2009, Jacek Pospychala <jacek.p@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> hi Benjamin,
>
> I step in to maintain JavaXPCOM. I very appreciate Javier's work and it's absolutely worth continuing.
> To not mention it's fundamental role in ATF existence, there's also a variety of other projects that also
> depend on it.
> Since it's friday night here, let's discuss the details the coming week, I'll get in touch with you.
>
> Jacek
>
>
> Benjamin Smedberg wrote:
>
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> Dear ATFers,
>
> As the primary clients of Mozilla's JavaXPCOM technology, I'm looking for
> nominations/volunteers for somebody to be maintainer of the JavaXPCOM
> bridge. Javier Pedemonte was formerly the module owner of JavaXPCOM in the
> Mozilla code. As far as I know, Javier is no longer available to maintain
> this code (he hasn't responded to the emails I've sent).
>
> As part of Mozilla's ongoing work to streamline our codebase and make it
> easier to maintain, we're planning on removing JavaXPCOM from the Mozilla
> core and have it be maintained as a separate project. I'm afraid that future
> releases of Mozilla/XULRunner will happen without a JavaXPCOM project and
> tools such as Eclipse which use JavaXPCOM will be stuck on older versions of
> Mozilla.
>
> If there were an active owner, I'd also like to explore other ways that Java
> could embed Mozilla without the complexity and instability from the
> JavaXPCOM bridge: perhaps something more like a Java<->JavaScript bridge or
> reusing the Java<->NPAPI bridge to extract information from Mozilla in a
> more stable way.
>
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