On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 06:41, Amila Suriarachchi <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 12:43 AM, Andreas Veithen > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi devs, >> >> I think we should have a look at AXIS2-4311 and see if and how we can >> fix that for the 1.6 release. >> >> I had a quick lock at the different packages and here are my >> preliminary conclusions: >> >> * org.apache.axis2.util in axis2-adb only contains a single utility >> class --> should not cause much trouble to move it elsewhere >> * org.apache.axis2.transport.jms is no longer in axis2-kernel. >> * org.apache.axis2.transport.http in axis2-kernel mainly contains the >> standard MessageFormatter implementations. Obviously the package name >> is no longer appropriate for this and it would make sense to move >> these classes. However, this means that users need to change their >> axis2.xml file. Note that cleaning this up would also be a good >> opportunity to move the non standard message builders/formatters from >> the transports project to the core Axis2 project, as discussed back in >> december 2008 [1] [2]. >> >> Thoughts? > > I agree with you that there are some areas we need to re factor and find > the proper way of doing it. > > We did the Axis2 1.5 release last year May but actually cut the branch on > December as I remember. So my idea was to do an Axis2 1.6 release with > whatever the fixes we have done after cut the 1.5 branch. Otherwise people > tend to think Axis2 has died. > > The split package problem is actually part of the whole Axis2 OSGI work. > Saminda started this discussion some time ago and there was no progress > after that. > > So my suggestion is to just wait until Axiom and woden releases (which I > believe happen shortly) and cut the Axis2 1.6 branch. Then we can take the > topics like "Axis2 OSGI" , "Axis2 Spring integration" and do subsequent > releases with them. > > And also I think synapse people wait on Axis2 1.6 release. So lets do Axis2 > 1.6 with whatever fixes we can do with and target major changes to Axis2 > 1.7.
I tend to agree with that from a purely Axis2 point of view. Not sure though what the Geronimo folks think about that, considering that 1.7 will not be release before a long time. Don't forget that they are one of our important "customers"... > thanks, > Amila. > > >> >> Andreas >> >> [1] http://markmail.org/message/fgtbr6tzpfemlery >> [2] http://markmail.org/thread/i6cq72unknnnvjy5 >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] >> For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] >> > > > > -- > Amila Suriarachchi > WSO2 Inc. > blog: http://amilachinthaka.blogspot.com/ > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
