I'm starting to wonder about the health of the Axis2 project, and
thought it might be useful to initiate a discussion on this topic.
The 1.5 release of Axis2 took 8 months from initial proposal to when it
finally escaped out the door, and the results frankly don't seem to
reflect the amount of elapsed time. Even the Javadocs are messed up in
the release (as well as on the website). One of the main features
headlined in the release notes is the transport refactoring - but the
only transport available is HTTP, since there seems to be no inclination
to get out a release of the new commons transports (which IMHO shows why
splitting these off into a separate project was a bad idea). There isn't
even an entry in the WS-Commons page at
http://ws.apache.org/commons/projects-overview.html for the transports,
so it's hard to tell the state of this project. There's also no
indication of when we'll have a Rampart release to go along with Axis2 1.5.
I realize a lot of the Axis2 and Rampart work is being led by WSO2, and
perhaps the people in that organization have a plan. But if that's the
case, I'd appreciate it if they could make it public for the rest of us
to know what's going on.
Thanks,
- Dennis
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Dennis M. Sosnoski
Java XML and Web Services
Axis2 Training and Consulting
http://www.sosnoski.com - http://www.sosnoski.co.nz
Seattle, WA +1-425-939-0576 - Wellington, NZ +64-4-298-6117
