Proposal for Launcher Package

(1) Scope of the Package

The Launcher Component is designed to be a cross platform Java application launcher.

(1.5) Interaction With Other Packages

Launcher relies only on standard JDK 1.2 (or later) APIs for production deployment. It utilizes the JUnit unit testing framework for developing and executing unit tests, but this is of interest only to developers of the component. Launcher will be a dependency for several existing components in the open source world.

No external configuration files are utilized.

(2) Initial Source of the Package

The original Java classes come from the Jakarta Tomcat 4.1 project.

The proposed package name for the new component is org.apache.commons.launcher.

(3) Required Jakarta-Commons Resources

• CVS Repository - New directory launcher in the jakarta-commons CVS repository.
• Mailing List - Discussions will take place on the general commons-dev@jakarta.apache.org mailing list. To help list subscribers identify messages of interest, it is suggested that the message subject of messages about this component be prefixed with [Launcher].
• Bugzilla - New component "Launcher" under the "Commons" product category, with appropriate version identifiers as needed.
• Jyve FAQ - New category "commons-launcher" (when available).

(4) Initial Committers

The initial committers on the Launcher component shall be:

• Patrick Luby
• Remy Maucherat