+1 On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 10:22:26AM -0500, Daniel Kulp wrote: > > This discussion has been open for a week now so I think we should go > ahead and call the vote. > > Basically, we are voting on the CXF parts of the proposal of accepting > the WS binding and tooling from the Yoko project. > > Here is my +1 > > > > Dan > > > On Friday 30 November 2007, Matt Hogstrom wrote: > > The members of project yoko have been considering the future of Yoko > > as a project. There have been several milestones delivered and the > > project is used by other ASF projects. The project is not as active > > as other ASF projects and it makes sense to move the code from Yoko to > > other projects. The Yoko team has the following proposal for your > > consideration. > > > > Proposed Code Donation from Project Yoko to Apache CXF and Apache > > Geronimo > > > > The Yoko community has been successful in delivering several > > milestones of the ORB implementation while in the Apache Incubator. > > These milestones are used by other Apache projects (namely Geronimo > > and Harmony) to support their releases. The WebServices bindings are > > dependent on CXF. The Yoko community has decided that the Yoko > > project does not have quite the momentum to carry itself as an > > independent project but has sufficient value for other projects for > > them to consider receiving the code and committers for that code-base > > as sub-projects. Since the code under consideration is used by Apache > > Geronimo, Apache CXF and Apache Harmony the movement of the code > > should continue to allow for independent releases so the code can be > > easily shared with other dependent projects. > > > > The proposed division is: > > > > yoko-spec-corba - this is the org.omg interface classes. > > rmi-spec - this is the javax.rmi spec implementation > > core - This is the actual ORB implementation. > > rmi-impl - This is the implementation of the RMIIIOP support. > > > > These modules are also used by Harmony. > > > > In addition to the code we propose that the following committers in > > Apache Yoko be accepted as committers in Apache Geronimo given their > > demonstration of delivering code, creating releases and functioning as > > a community. Those noted with asterisks are already Geronimo > > committers. > > > > Continued involvement with the core: > > > > Rick McGuire * > > David Jencks * > > Alan Cabrera * > > Lars Kuhne > > Alexey Petrenko > > Darren Middleman > > > > The remainder of the modules in Yoko are part of the webservices > > support and are independent of the underlying ORB implementation. > > > > api -- interface classes used for the web services support. > > bindings -- code to implement the CORBA-Web services bindings. > > tools -- tools for generation WSDL and IDL for the bindings > > maven-plugin -- some maven plugins that can use the tools for > > generating binding-related build artifacts. None of the maven-plugin > > code is used by the ORB. > > > > There is also a distribution directory with some sample applications. > > One set of samples demonstrates using the core ORB, the other set is > > for WebServices. We recommend that the distribution directory should > > move to Apache CXF as the webservices examples use the orb samples to > > bind them as web services. Since Apache Geronimo's only use of CORBA > > is for exporting EJBs, these samples are not particularly valuable for > > Geronimo. > > > > The Yoko community did not have any committers that expressed an > > interest in continuing work on these bindings. As such, only the code > > would be moving to apache CXF.
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