Meeting Notes: Sun and Apache/Axis meeting (06/06/2002) We had a meeting Thursday 06/06 with Sam Ruby, Glen Daniels and Tom Jordahl at Sun campus. Eduardo Pelegri, Anita Jindal, Roberto Chinnici and I were attending from Sun side. SOAPBuilders Round IV gave us opportunity to setup this meeting. The primary objective of this meeting was to discuss the current and future relationship between the Sun JAX-RPC team and the ASF team.
This meeting is part of a continued collaboration between Apache/Axis and Sun on JAX-RPC. Apache has been a strong supporter of JAX-RPC spec. Last year, there were meetings to discuss how JAX-RPC RI team and Axis can collaborate on the JAX-RPC implementation. At that time, the different schedule and resource constraints on both sides led towards the path of two implementations. On a sidenote, JAX-RPC EG had agreed to have an early access of JAX-RPC specification based on Apache/Axis request. So all signs of good collaboration so far. In the meeting, we discussed how reference implementation fits into the JCP JSR process. RI is meant to promote the specification. RI must be compatible with spec and TCK. Spec schedules are the primary driver. So JCP and spec compatibility need to be primary driver for any potential JAX-RPC implementation convergence that involves JAX-RPC team and Apache/Axis. Presently Sun's JAX-RPC RI resources and schedule are tied with the J2EE 1.4 deliverables. This pushes the timeframe for any future collaboration (with Apache/Axis) to the post J2EE 1.4 timeframe. One possibility of future collaboration would be to create an RI project at Apache that would take advantage of the experiences of both the JAX-RPC RI group and Axis. Based on our discussions, October around the SOAP Builders round V (that Sun will be hosting) was mentioned as a good time to start looking into more details at the collaboration between the two teams. Regards, Rahul Sharma, Lead, JAX-RPC JSR-101, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
