+1 for Nandana as the release manager.

Thanks,
Ruchith

On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 6:03 PM, Davanum Srinivas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Nandana,
>
> +1 from me for you to be the Release Manager for 1.4.1
>
> IMHO, we should use 1.4 branch. The *ONLY* change should be the
> security change. Nothing more.
>
> thanks,
> dims
>
> On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 6:50 AM, Nandana Mihindukulasooriya
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I would like to volunteer to be the release manager for Axis2 1.4.1.
>>
>> I think we can fix the critical issues in the 1.4 branch (or a 1.4.1 branch
>> ) and do the 1.4.1 release. I don't think doing 1.4.1 from the trunk is the
>> appropriate way as trunk is now java 1.5 and has lot of major changes after
>> Axis2 1.4 . However we can fix any issues that are not already fixed in the
>> trunk at the same time when we fix those in the branch.
>>
>> Hope this is oky with Axis2 release guidelines.
>>
>> thanks,
>> nandana
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 6:39 PM, Davanum Srinivas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>
>>> IMHO, The logic is the same as for blockers. If there is a work
>>> around, it's not a blocker. So i am +0 on a 1.4.1 since there is a
>>> work around that can be documented.
>>>
>>> That said, If someone is willing to drive a 1.4.1 as the release
>>> manager, please do go ahead.
>>>
>>> thanks,
>>> dims
>>>
>>> On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 2:48 AM, Sanka Samaranayake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>> wrote:
>>> > Hi,
>>> >
>>> > For the users who is already using 1.4 version, the workaround would be
>>> > to
>>> > define policies in services.xml without using <wsa:PolicyAttachment>.
>>> > Then
>>> > the problem is that those policies will appear in <wsdl:PortType> which
>>> > is
>>> > not correct but security will apply for both format of service URLs.
>>> >
>>> > Hence +1 for fixing that issue and do 1.4.1 release.
>>> >
>>> > Thanks,
>>> > Sanka
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 8:59 PM, Nandana Mihindukulasooriya
>>> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >> Hi,
>>> >>    There are few issues with Axis2 1.4 / Rampart 1.4 with the new
>>> >> policy
>>> >> configuration. The new policy configuration which allows us to apply
>>> >> policies to binding hierarchy is a great feature when in comes to ws
>>> >> security policy configuration. It allows security policies to be
>>> >> attached to
>>> >> the correct attachment points. But there are few issues that need to be
>>> >> fixed in Axis2 1.4. I will list them below.
>>> >>     1.) If we configure security using new configuration, service can
>>> >> be
>>> >> accessed without security.
>>> >>          In Axis2 1.4, a service is exposed in two EPRs (consider SOAP
>>> >> 1.1
>>> >> binding).
>>> >>            eg.
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >> http://localhost:8080/axis2/services/SecureService.SecureServiceHttpSoap11Endpoint
>>> >>                http://localhost:8080/axis2/services/SecureService
>>> >>           But if we you set the policies using the new configuration,
>>> >> if
>>> >> you do a web service call to the older EPR, you can access the service
>>> >> without any security even though it is secured using the binding
>>> >> hierarchy.
>>> >> This happens because if we call the old EPR, it is not dispatched to a
>>> >> binding. But this leaves the service vulnerable. I think we should
>>> >> dispatch
>>> >> to one of the bindings may be using soap envelope version if we have
>>> >> only
>>> >> one binding with that soap version. We should have a way to dispatch
>>> >> messages which comes to old EPR to one of the bindings else we should
>>> >> have
>>> >> an option to disable that EPR.
>>> >>
>>> >>     2.) In the out flow, policies are not set correctly in the binding
>>> >> message.
>>> >>           This is fixed in the trunk but this bug is there in Axis2
>>> >> 1.4.
>>> >>
>>> >>    So the option we have is to configure security using the old
>>> >> configuration. But then the problem is policies are attached to the
>>> >> port
>>> >> type which is the correct way to do if we have policies using
>>> >> <service>,<operation><message> tags. But this makes Axis2 not
>>> >> interoperable
>>> >> as security policies should be attached to binding hierarchy according
>>> >> WS
>>> >> Security policy specification. Ideally we should always use the new
>>> >> configuration to apply security. And code generation also doesn't work
>>> >> correctly when the policies attached to the port type (polices are not
>>> >> correctly attached to the stub).
>>> >>
>>> >>    So I think it would be great if can consider a Axis2 1.4.1 with
>>> >> these
>>> >> things fixed.
>>> >>
>>> >> thanks,
>>> >> nandana
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > --
>>> > Sanka Samaranayake
>>> > WSO2 Inc.
>>> >
>>> > http://sankas.blogspot.com/
>>> > http://www.wso2.org/
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Davanum Srinivas :: http://davanum.wordpress.com
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