Pauses Café

I am getting more and more fed up with Sun and the java.net project.

When I started writting the Maven2 webstart plugin, I reused functionality from both mustang (the jnlp-servlet) and the java.net pack200 ant tasks.

First my request to create a java.net project to put the jnlp-servlet BSD code is stalled. I’ve created my project 2 months ago and I am still waiting. I sent mails, added a note to a related BUG parade issue, and created an issue in the java.net issue tracker. Not a single feedback.

Now the advanced search page doesn’t work.

Now I have been unable to reach the pack200 ant tasks web site for some time and I just discovered that its link seems to have disappeared from the listing. As it is the unique project on that page without a link to the home page, I am wondering if something fuzzy is going on.

Unfortunately I’ve suffered 2 hardware failures in the past month (RAM leading to disk corruption on master disk + dropped external backup disk…), so if i’ve lost the original code for the project (apparently under the SDL license).

So can someone please tell me where to get this code, and if not, let me know why the project was removed from java.net without an explanation?

update: forgot some links. The pack200 ant tasks project was here and the author was probably Kumar Srinivasan.

update (26/01/2006): seems like the project page appeared again. It is still not part of the listing thus. And I am still waiting for the jnlp-servlet to be created… What time does the Sun raise in the sky?

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