+1 Dan. Can you clarify #3 a bit please? Sanjiva.
2009/6/15 Daniel Kulp <dk...@apache.org> > > Some of you have noticed some discussions on WSCOMMONS-299. I've also > been > thinking about some of those issues and I DID have a discussion with Glen > Daniels at TSSJS about the possibility of starting work on a Neethi 3.0. > With the comments and stuff on WSCOMMONS-299, it might be time to really > start > it. Thus, I'd like to "svn cp" the trunk to a 2.x branch for future > maintenance and start making trunk 3.0. > > Things I'd like tackled for 3.0: > > 1) Java 5 - make the collections and everything typed. Use Enums where > appropriate, etc.... Basically, general cleanup. Also, I see that many > operations aren't threadsafe due to use of HashMap's with no > synchronization. > Possibly fix those with ConcurrentHashMaps or similar. > > 2) Better support for the nested policies as described in WSCOMMONS-299. > > 3) Change the builders to use XMLStreamReader. The Policies use > XMLStreamWriter. For consistency, using the reader is preferred. This > also > removes Axiom as a dependency making the requirement list smaller. > > 4) With (3) fixed, most of the Neethi "fork" we have in CXF can be ported > back. CXF has a few utilities and such that would be good to push back and > then remove from CXF. > > 5) Once all of that is done, it would open up the door to allow some more > "common" Policies objects for standard policies. Some could be in Neethi > directly (things like policies objects for WS-Addressing assertions, mtom > stuff, etc...). Others, like the WS-SecurityPolicy stuff could either go > into Neethi or might be better in WSS4J. This could help eliminate a > BUNCH > of duplicate code between users of Neethi, particularly CXF and Rampart. > (maybe if I keep pushing similar code down into commons, we can have a big > merger in the future. Acxfis 3? Maybe not. :-) ) > > 6) Support for WS-Policy 1.5. > > Anyway, if no one really objects to starting the 3.0 work, I'd like to > create > the 2.x branch later this week. Thoughts? > > BTW: This is also why I STRONGLY am in favor of Neethi staying in commons > and > not going to an Axis2 TLP. > > -- > Daniel Kulp > dk...@apache.org > http://www.dankulp.com/blog > -- Sanjiva Weerawarana, Ph.D. Founder, Director & Chief Scientist; Lanka Software Foundation; http://www.opensource.lk/ Founder, Chairman & CEO; WSO2, Inc.; http://www.wso2.com/ Member; Apache Software Foundation; http://www.apache.org/ Visiting Lecturer; University of Moratuwa; http://www.cse.mrt.ac.lk/ Blog: http://sanjiva.weerawarana.org/
