I have found the discussion on WASP to be a productive one. Now it is time to move from general discussion to development activities. Here's a recap of a few conclusions:
Goal 1: achieve a single active SOAP implementation. There is no plans to maintain in perpetuity a separate identity for multiple code bases. From a technical perspective, what will emerge will be based primarily on what directions active committers choose to take these code bases. Needless to say, those that participate more will have a correspondingly larger say. Goal 2: grow a larger "web services" community building upon this common code base Like avalon, turbine, tomcat, and ant; we can and should organize separate code bases which build upon this common base into "sub-sub-projects". If it is felt that the name "axis" is too prejudicial, then by all means lets rename the project. But when all is said and done, the name we come up with should (1) be the name of the common soap code base that we all participate in, and (2) should be the name of the common -dev mailing list that defines the community. One thing I want to specifically call out here: just as xml.apache.org subprojects are not artificially limited in scope to only support Apache XML parsers or Apache XSLT processors, sub-sub-projects of whatever common name we come up with will not be limited to only supporting this soap stack. Summary: what matters most is the community. At times we will certainly disagree over technical issues, but over time the code base with the largest active development community will attract both the largest mindshare and marketshare. At this point, I'd like to suggest that discussions continue on axis-dev. These discussions can include coming up with a new name, contributions of fragments or complete soap implementations, and contributions of code bases which build upon a soap stack... - Sam Ruby --------------------------------------------------------------------- In case of troubles, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
