The Jakarta Commons Chain of Responsibility Component

1. INTRODUCTION

This scope of the Chain of Responsibility component is to support modelling of complex computations as composition of individual commands that operate on a context.

2. DEPENDENCIES

The Chain of Responsibility component is dependent upon the following external components for development and use:

• Java Development Kit (Version 1.2 or later)
• Jakarta Commons Beanutils (OPTIONAL)
• Jakarta Commons Collections (OPTIONAL)
• Jakarta Commons Digester (OPTIONAL)
• Jakarta Commons Logging (OPTIONAL)
• JavaServer Faces API (Version 1.0 or later) (OPTIONAL)
• Portlet API (Version 1.0 or later) (OPTIONAL)
• Servlet API (Version 2.2 or later) (OPTIONAL)
• JUnit Testing Framework (OPTIONAL, unit tests only)

3. RELEASE INFO

Current Release: 1.0

Planned Next Release: 1.0.1

4. COMMITTERS

The following individuals are the primary developers and maintainers of this component. Developers who plan to use Chain in their own projects are encouraged to collaborate on the future development of this component to ensure that it continues to meet a variety of needs.

• Craig McClanahan
• Martin Cooper
• Don Brown
• James Mitchell
• Joe Germuska