Agree, that there is enough in trunk to warrant a 2.2 release before
moving on to OSGi and JEE6 work items.
IMHO, any EE6 preview items should be installable plugins not included
in the full JEE5 assemblies, especially given the legal restriction we
have in the JPA2 Spec (and possibly other EE6 specs) that includes the
2.(iii) clause "is made available for testing and evaluation purposes
only", which effectively blocks us from releasing artifacts implementing
those specs until they're finalized.
-Donald
David Jencks wrote:
I wonder if we should think about a 2.2 release based on javaee 5.
Trunk has a lot of improvements over 2.1 and I think it would be good
for our users to get something out before we do any really major
osgi-related refactorings.
It would be great if we could provide javaee 6 previews for the stuff we
have done but this seems less essential to me at the moment given the
rapidly receding timeline for the ee6 spec.
Stuff that makes plugins a lot easier:
-- transitive dependencies from maven in car-maven-plugin
-- gbean annotations
-- classloader-per-jar (not yet in trunk)
updated external project support:
jaspi support (still needs tck)
jetty 7 (@eclipse, this will now be servlet 2.5 compliant)
activemq 5
potential ee6 features:
openejb ejb 3.1 support
connector 1.6 support
jetty 8 (proposed) servelt 3.0 support
openjpa jpa 2.0 support (??? not sure how far along this is)
I wonder if we can release these somewhat separately as early access
plugins.
what do people think?
thanks
david jencks
