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R A T I O N A L E  A N D  E X P L A N A T I O N
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When ObjectBridge was proposed as a Jakarta project about six weeks ago
many people were pleased at the prospect, but others were concerned
about the burgeoning mass of projects accumulating and scope creep.
ObjectBridge was accepted as a project under the proviso that we, at
Jakarta, discussed the possibility of db.apache.org. 

We would like to start db.apache.org to house as much of database
related code at Apache and to give a potential home to other database
related projects with strong developer communities  

We are aware that all the projects listed are Java based but we do not
want db.apache.org to be Java centric. Over time we hope that
db.apache.org will be home to projects that are written in any number of
languages. It just so happens that we, who are taking the initiative,
all happen to be Jakarta committers. The board members involved in
reviewing this proposal, who more than likely have numerous contacts
with many developer communities, may have further suggests for projects
that may seed db.apache.org.

What follows is a list of people who would make up the initial PMC and
the projects that would initially seed db.apache.org if this propsoal is
accepted.

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P M C  M E M B E R S
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The following list of people would make up the PMC. All
those listed have participated in the development of database
related projects and would like to commit to initializing
db.apache.org.

John McNally (Torque)
Geir Magnusson Jr. (PoolMan, Commons DBCP)
Thomas Mahler (ObjectBridge)
Jason van Zyl (Axion, ObjectBridge, Torque)
Rodney Waldoff (Axion, Commons DBCP)

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S E E D  P R O J E C T S
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To start, we plan to place the following projects into
db.apache.org:

Axion
Pure Java Database
http://axion.tigris.org

Commons DBCP
Database Connection Pooling
http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/dbcp

ObjectBridge
General Purpose Persistence Layer
http://objectbridge.sourceforge.net (this is now a jakarta project)

PoolMan
Database Connection Pooling
http://sourceforge.net/projects/poolman

Torque
Database Persistence Layer
http://jakarta.apache.org/turbine/torque

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jvz.

Jason van Zyl
jvanzyl@apache.org

http://tambora.zenplex.org