How much further could we take the reduction of Spring/XML usage in initialization?
On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 10:31 AM, Daniel Kulp <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 > [email protected] > http://dankulp.com/blog > Talend - http://www.talend.com >
