Re: [Axis2] Things I can work on

[Chathura Ekanayake]

On 2/15/06, Eran Chinthaka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Hi Deepak,

Deepak Bhole wrote:

Hi,

I was thinking of starting to work on some of the bigger issues/features
in axis. I see a list of TODO's on the main page:

- JAX-RPC 1.1 and/or JAX-WS compliance
  

I think Azeez started on this.

- SOAP Encoding
  

No one has started on this. Someone was talking about this for sometime, but I didn;t see any activity on this so far. So this is still available.

- Binary serialization and de-serialization support
  

Let me explain this a bit. Basically we wanna integrate something like Fast-Infoset or DFDL so that OM can read and write binary data. Its not the attachments we are talking about here.
For example, one can send the complete message binary serialized over the network, but AXIOM should be able to read it in and perhaps feed in to Axis2.

Please see http://wiki.apache.org/ws/FrontPage/Axis2/Tasks/BinarySerialization for more information.

- Management Interface for Axis2
  

There was a Googgle SoC project on this, but it has not been integrated by that student in to Axis2 completely so far. So I personally do not like to mark it as complete.

 

I am busy working on the management interface. I have implemented a web services based interface to expose the management functionalities as well. And a servlet web application to manage remote engines by connecting to them using the remote URL. I exposed the management interface as webservices instead of using JMX as JMX failed in the integration. But the code can be easily converted to use JMX as core modules are not affected by the method used to expose them. I will send the code as soon as possible (within three days:).

- Implementation of other Transports.
  

We have JMS and HTTP transports tested and working well. But we have tested SMTP and TCP to a limited amount only. So one can either work on these two or implement some other transports.

- Resource framework implementation (WS-RF) and Enterprise web services 
  such as JSR 109 support
- Completion of interop tests
  

This is done.

PS: If there anything more pressing than this that I could work on
instead, please let me know.
  

Deepak, I call for a list of features that we require for 1.0 release. Give the devs sometime to fill that up. But unfortunately I didn't see lot of people coming and filling it. But if I had announced, as the release manager, Axis2's 1.0 release, then lot of people would have come and obstruct it. IMO, this is pathetic. Anyway, please wait some time for all the devs to fill the list.

 I prefer if you can select one from that list, as that will contain more pressing needs.

Dims and Sanjiva, do you foresee and specific features for 1.0 so that Deepak can work on.

Thanks for your offer,
Eran Chinthaka

Thanks,
Deepak