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Subject: SCA-J package names
Hi Simon, After further study of this issue, OASIS TC Administration has reached the following decision: While the specifications under development at the OASIS SCA-J Technical Committee are based on the original specifications from the OSOA collaboration, it is our understanding that the final specifications to be delivered by the SCA-J TC are not required (or even likely) to be backwards compatible with the original OSOA draft specifications. Maintaining the "org.osoa" prefix may not be needed or even desirable given such incompatibilities. The argument that there exists a JCP precedence for adopting the original package name when transporting it from one organization to another, while true in general, does not take into account that it applies to finished, externally defined APIs marked for inclusion in the JDK. As far as we've been able to determine, there's never been a case of a JSR that took some API from outside the JCP as input and modified it while keeping the same package name. Moreover, the use of the "org.osoa" string in an OASIS technical specification seems inappropriate as OASIS does not currently own the "osoa.org" domain. Therefore, OASIS recommends the use of the "org.oasis_open" prefix in order to: - clearly differentiate the OASIS specification from the (possibly incompatible) OSOA drafts on which this work is based, - clearly differentiate OASIS work from other work that may be developed by OSOA itself, - use a prefix referring to an OASIS-owned domain name, and - address the Java name syntax issue you identified with the "oasis-open" name. OASIS will take action to ensure that future similar work will also use this prefix, to ensure consistency among OASIS specifications. As with any other TC Administration decision, this can be appealed, as spelled out in the TC Process Document. Regards, Mary ----------------------------------- Mary P McRae Manager of TC Administration, OASIS email: mary.mcrae@oasis-open.org web: www.oasis-open.org phone: 603.232.9090
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