I'm thinking of building 2.4 at some point later this month. Basically, it will have been about 6 months since 2.3 was release which is a pretty good amount of time. In that time, we've integrated a couple of the GSoC projects, we've introduced some new features in the JAX-RS stuff, and we've integrated new versions of XmlSchema, Neethi, and WSS4J which provide a lot of new functionality. On the security front, the new SAML2 support in WSS4J and all the updates in CXF to support that is huge. Also, a lot of testing has gone into the WS-Security/WS-Trust stuff, particularly with other STS providers, to help enhance the interopability.
Right now, I see two "risks": 1) WSS4J - we obviously need a release of WSS4J 1.6. Colm has a good handle on it with a "beta" out there for people to look at. However, I'm not sure if the Axis/Rampart people will get a chance to look at it. 2) Neethi - we need a release of this as well. Andreas has already upgraded all of Axis2 to using the new Neethi snapshots. I've gotten a lot of feedback from them already, bugs encountered, fixed, etc.... Thoughts or additional comments? -- Daniel Kulp dk...@apache.org http://dankulp.com/blog Talend - http://www.talend.com
