Announce a new release of the spec

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EXPERT GROUPS

jsp-spec-eg project at java.net

webtier-alignment project at java.net

- email the following mailing lists:

- [email protected]

- [email protected]

- update status on the home page

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OFFICIAL CHANNEL for the JSP SPEC

jsp-spec-public project at java.net

- use Announce tool to announce the new release

- email the following mailing lists:

- [email protected]

- [email protected]

- update status on the home page

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OFFICIAL FORUMS

JSP http://forum.java.sun.com/forum.jspa?forumID=45

JSF http://forum.java.sun.com/forum.jspa?forumID=427

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Internal

All of J2EE: [email protected]

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Others

jakarta-taglibs [email protected]

tomcat-users asked Jan (because I'm not subscribed and cannot post)

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EDR - 2004.12.08

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This announcement was just sent to the J2EE web-tier community.

This is an important milestone. We're making good progress in

aligning JSP and Faces...

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Experts,

Our official announcement about JSP 2.1 and Faces 1.1 EDR.

An important milestone!

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[ANNOUNCE] JSP 2.1 and Faces 1.2 Early Draft Review

We're pleased to announce the availability of the Early Draft Review

of the next versions of the specification for JavaServer Pages and

Faces. JavaServer Pages (JSP) 2.1 is developed under JSR-245 and

JavaServer Faces (Faces) 1.2 is developed under JSR-252. The two

expert groups are working together to improve the alignment between

these two powerful web presentation technologies. The foremost such

alignment issue is the Expression Language, as stated in both JSRs.

JSP 2.1 exports the Expression Language (EL) into its own separate

document; technically a sub-document of the JSP specification. The

Unified EL spec defines a new top level java package, javax.el. This

package is completely independent of the technology using it and

allows the using technology to plug itself into the EL resolution

process. The bulk of the changes in the JSP spec itself follow from

how it uses the Unified EL.

As mentioned in the original JSR-252, this spec is not a new feature

release. Faces 1.2 contains the work for it to leverage the new

Unified EL, as well as a few spec related bug fixes.

The alignment of Faces and JSP in these JSRs enables some new

capabilities and provides a solid foundation for future growth. For

example, in a web application that uses both Faces and JSP, it is

possible for pages that only use JSP (without any faces content) to

access managed beans. Please see Appendix E of the JSP spec and the

preface of the Faces spec to see details of what's changed!

To access the specifications:

JSP 2.1 EDR (JSR-245)

http://jcp.org/aboutJava/communityprocess/edr/jsr245/

Faces 1.2 EDR (JSR-252)

http://jcp.org/aboutJava/communityprocess/edr/jsr252/

Sincerely,

Ed Burns, Pierre Delisle, Roger Kitain, Mark Roth and the JSR-245 and

JSR-252 Expert Groups.

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Announcement:

Experts,

The new unified EL and JSP 2.1 Specifications are now ready

for review by the Expert Group.

The two spec documents as well as the javadocs have been checked in

the CVS repository of our EG private project at java.net

(https://jsp-spec-eg.dev.java.net/).

Simply click on the download link of revision 1.1 of these files:

1. EL 2.1

Specification (rev 1.1: draft 1 for EDR)

https://jsp-spec-eg.dev.java.net/source/browse/jsp-spec-eg/spec/ELSpec2.1.pdf

APIs (javadoc) (rev 1.1: draft 1 for EDR)

https://jsp-spec-eg.dev.java.net/source/browse/jsp-spec-eg/spec/ELAPI2.1.zip

2. JSP 2.1

Specification (rev 1.1: draft 1 for EDR)

https://jsp-spec-eg.dev.java.net/source/browse/jsp-spec-eg/spec/JSPSpec2.1.pdf

APIs (javadoc) (rev 1.1: draft 1 for EDR)

https://jsp-spec-eg.dev.java.net/source/browse/jsp-spec-eg/spec/JSPAPI2.1.zip

These will be handed off to the JCP for our public Early Draft Review (EDR)

on Friday December 3. We'd really appreciate any review comments by close of business

on Wednesday December 1st, if possible.

To aid in your review, please look at the change log in Appendix E of

the JSP spec.

The entire Unified EL spec is new, although most of chapter 1 has been

lifted from the JSP 2.0 spec. Section 1.2 is a must read.

Many Thanks,

-- Pierre & Mark

P.S. To all of you in the U.S., Happy Thanksgiving!

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I've included below a draft of an email that we could send to announce

the availability of PR. We could use that same email for both JSF and

JSP.

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On the JSP side, I would plan to send the announcement

to the following lists:

JSP EG:

[email protected]

JSP spec Public website:

[email protected]

[email protected]

announce page -> add one entry for the announcement

update status on home page

Official Forum:

http://forum.java.sun.com/forum.jspa?forumID=45

Related Lists:

[email protected]

[email protected]

Internal

[email protected] (has this changed?)

Please let me know if I am missing any. And I assume

that Jayashri will complement with JSF specific

lists.

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For the blog(s), I think it would make more sense to have a single

blog that covers the current state of affairs with PR of

JSP and JSF. I don't think it makes sense to have 2 blogs

to talk essentially about the same thing (although the 2 views

can be different, I think that a common view serves us better

at this point since this is the focus of these 2 JSRs).

Ed, I assume you'd be handling it. If you need help, let me

know.

Thanks,

-- Pierre

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Subject: [ANNOUNCE] JSP 2.1 and Faces 1.2 Public Review

We are pleased to announce the availability of the Public Review

of the next versions of the specification for JavaServer Pages (JSP)

and JavaServer Faces (Faces). JSP 2.1 is developed under JSR-245 and

Faces 1.2 is developed under JSR-252. The two expert groups are working

ogether to improve the alignment between these two powerful web presentation

technologies.

Building on the work that was accomplished with the Early Draft

Review, this Public Review covers two additional areas that required

better integration between JSP and Faces:

- Tree Creation and Content Interweaving

- Deferred expressions nested within iteration tags

Please see Appendix E of the JSP spec and the

Preface of the Faces spec to see details of what's changed.

To access the specifications:

JSP 2.1 PR (JSR-245)

http://jcp.org/aboutJava/communityprocess/pr/jsr245/

Faces 1.2 PR (JSR-252)

http://jcp.org/aboutJava/communityprocess/pr/jsr252/

Sincerely,

The JSR-245 and JSR-252 Expert Groups

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