I found more incompatible changes :-( https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SYNAPSE-693?focusedCommentId=12934217&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels%3Acomment-tabpanel#action_12934217
I do not understand why you are opposing to changing the namespace with 2.0 release, while we have this sort of dangerous incompatibilities. Ruwan On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 6:43 AM, Sanjiva Weerawarana <sanj...@opensource.lk>wrote: > On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 8:58 PM, Ruwan Linton <ruwan.lin...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> Also, in general using namespaces to version XML schemas is generally >>> considered bad practice. >>> >> >> I don't think we are doing a versioning of the synapse configuration >> schema with the namespace, anyway most of >> > > Then what are you achieving with the namespace name change? > > >> the other schemas, like (WSDL, XSLT) have different namespaces for >> different versions. :-( >> > > Not correct .. WSDL 1.1 to 2.0 does do but in that case the languages and > semantics are majorly different. The 2.0 language was also delivered by a > whole different group instead of a small private club. > > XSLT was intentionally, carefully designed for "forwards compatibility" and > has a "version" attribute: > > http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt#forwards > > <http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt#forwards>This was a James Clark masterpiece. > > Now see XSLT 2.0's section on backwards compatibility: > > http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt20/#backwards > <http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt20/#backwards> > >> Also there is more than the domain name or being a new TLP out from WS for >> this namespace change, which is, that Synapse is more than web services and >> it can handle many things apart from web services, as you know web services >> is just one connector among many other connectors for mediation, and that is >> why I do not want to limit the namespace to the ws.apache.org. >> > > Yes Synapse is much more than Web services. However, IMO, most users don't > bother to give any quality time to looking at the namespace and making > judgments based on that. > > I'm done pushing my position on this topic :). > > Sanjiva. > -- > Sanjiva Weerawarana, Ph.D. > Founder, Director & Chief Scientist; Lanka Software Foundation; > http://www.opensource.lk/ > Founder, Chairman & CEO; WSO2; http://wso2.com/ > Founder & Director; Thinkcube Systems; http://www.thinkcube.com/ > Member; Apache Software Foundation; http://www.apache.org/ > Member; Sahana Software Foundation; http://www.sahanafoundation.org/ > Visiting Lecturer; University of Moratuwa; http://www.cse.mrt.ac.lk/ > > Blog: http://sanjiva.weerawarana.org/ > > -- Ruwan Linton Software Architect & Product Manager, WSO2 ESB; http://wso2.org/esb WSO2 Inc.; http://wso2.org Lean . Enterprise . Middleware phone: +1 408 754 7388 ext 51789 email: ru...@wso2.com; cell: +94 77 341 3097 blog: http://blog.ruwan.org linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/in/ruwanlinton google: http://www.google.com/profiles/ruwan.linton tweet: http://twitter.com/ruwanlinton
