Re: Marketing and publicity

[Alastair Green <alastair.green@choreology.com>]

Hi Krishna,

I'm glad you agree. A JSR is what we had in mind. I've talked to a few other TC
members about this, and I think there's a fair amount of interest in a JaXTA. I'd
very much welcome your involvement in proposing this -- we should be able to benefit
from the SAML experience.

If anyone else is interested in such an initiative why don't they send me a mail,
and we can take it from there.

Yours,

Alastair

Krishna Sankar wrote:

> Alastair,
>
>         You are right. A cohesive, consistent, easy to use and standard Java API
> would accelerate the prelevant use of the BTP APIs.
>
>         For Java APIs one should go thru the JCP (Java Community Process). One
> should initiate a JSR as per http://www.jcp.org/jsr/overview/index.jsp.  I
> just initiated one for the OASIS SAML. If you want, we can work on one for
> BTP as well. Pl let me know.
>
>         cheers
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alastair Green [mailto:alastair.green@choreology.com]
> Sent: Monday, October 08, 2001 10:53 AM
> To: OASIS BT TC
> Subject: Marketing and publicity
>
> In our view the greatest aid to market acceptance of BTP would be a
> standardized Java API, which would immediately help intuitive
> understanding and remove fear of usage complexity.
>
> The spec addresses the needs of implementers, and not of the user
> community, which is inevitable for an interop spec. The likely community
> of implementers is narrow, and presumably able to handle the
> "complexity".
>
> We view such an API as outside the scope of this OASIS BTP TC, as
> currently constituted, and not really the type of thing OASIS
> specializes in anyway, I suspect.
>
> Alastair
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