+1 -- dims
--- Sanjiva Weerawarana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > I would like to give an update on the axis-c++ effort that we're > doing here in Sri Lanka. As some of you know, I have organized > an open-source software foundation in Sri Lanka to get local > developers to participate in open-source projects. Axis-C++ is > our first effort. This is being worked on by the following > folks: > Chaminda Divitotawela > Nuwan Gurusinghe > Susantha Kumara > Damitha Kumarage > Nadika Ranasinghe > Sanjaya Sinharage > Roshan Weerasuriya > Susantha, Damitha, Sanjaya and Roshan are working full-time on this > effort. Nuwan and Chaminda are spending 2 days a week and Nadika > one day a week. Susantha is the technical lead of the team. I work > with them to help understand stuff and to help guide the > architecture etc.. > > I had previously organized a group of folks from here to work on > a client-side C++ impl - that is currently committed at > ws-axis/contrib/Axis-C++ > The current work has focused on the server-side. We intend to go > back to the client-side code and bring it in alignment with the > server-side code, but the work so far been on the server side. > > We had a phone call with Dims a while ago when he explained the > overall Axis architecture and what he wanted us to do before the > work could be moved to the mainstream. The current status is that > we've developed an architecture for the server side and prototyped > most of it. A draft document explaining the architecture is > attached. The model supports all the usual Axis concepts (WSDD, > handlers, etc.) but is a bit different in the internal guts. I > assume that is not a problem .. the main motivation to change was > to try to move to a more pull-oriented approach and hopefully a > higher performant approach. All of this stuff can be discussed and > adjusted once we get this going mainstream, of course. > > I have also attached a jar file containing the main source. The > attached isn't enough to compile (it doesn't include all the > dependencies) but enough to give you an idea of the current status. > > What I'd like to do is the following: > - commit the code to the main repository at ws-axis/c++/... > - make the authors committers > - run in regular mode: design, implement, etc. etc. > > Dims suggested that we take a vote on how to move forward. Here's > my +1 to the above approach. > > What do you think? > > Sanjiva. > > ATTACHMENT part 2 application/msword name=AxisServerDesign.doc > ATTACHMENT part 3 application/octet-stream name=axiscpp.jar ===== Davanum Srinivas - http://webservices.apache.org/~dims/ __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Calendar - Free online calendar with sync to Outlook(TM). http://calendar.yahoo.com
