User Welcome Thread

[nsoft]

If you're interested, in UnoJar or actively using it, feel free to say hi here and if you like, you can say something about yourself, or about why UnoJar is interesting or useful to you.

[nsoft]

Hey, so I'm Gus the maintainer! (right now the only one with commit rights, though several folks have each provided contributions).

Here's my story:

I've been programming in Java since early 2001 and Needham Software is my consulting company, specializing in search. I found the One-Jar^(TM) library many years ago and it was super cool. Unfortunately the fellow who wrote it seems to have given up on it as of about 2013, literally a few months after I chose it to be a fundamental part of my JesterJ project. For a while I didn't need any changes to one-jar and was unaware of the fact that it had gone dead. When I realized this and after filing several bugs, and even offered to join maintaining it on source forge. After a couple of years not getting any traction, I forked it and began using my own version distributed from a Jfrog hosted Artifactory. (They kindly supplied me with an open source license). Eventually however I got tired of depending on an artifactory instance. It only exists via the whim of Jfrog. Also, it made for an opaque piece of code that users would not have any visibility into since it was locally maintained. Finally, it seemed a shame that the things I was doing for one-jar should be shared.

Thus I eventually decided to formally fork One-Jar and begin to modernize it. The name Uno-Jar was chosen for the fork because Simon Tuffts, the author of One-Jar had Trademarked the One-Jar name, so distribution and advertising under that moniker seemed unwise (although I doubt he would pursue me, you never know if he or his estate might sell his trademark someday, or to whom they might sell it).

So TLDR; I'm maintaining it so I can continue to use it for JesterJ, but I'm encourage that several folks have contributed.