This is what we've been doing with the WSO2 Application Server releases for past many years. We've always released with compatible Axis2, Rampart & Sandesha versions. I think that is the best model to follow for Apache Axis2, Rampart & Sandesha2 as well. Even the source packs contains the sources for all of these.
Azeez On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 11:56 PM, Sanjiva Weerawarana <[email protected] > wrote: > Andreas basically it forces us to make sure Rampart & Sandesha are ALWAYS > available as part of the Axis2 release. That means we won't (not that we > can't but rather won't) do an axis2 release until the other two are ready > too. We already do that for addressing .. so this simply collapses the other > two as well. > > It doesn't necessarily have to mean a restructuring of the project > hierarchy. Its simply an agreement / commitment to consider these as one and > always release together. > > The second advantage of a combined single distro is user convenience. CXF > (and others like Metro) I believe already offer one package that has support > for WS-Sec and WS-RM "built in" .. so this is simply keeping up with trends! > > Sanjiva. > > -- *Afkham Azeez* Senior Software Architect & Senior Manager; WSO2, Inc.; http://wso2.com, * * *Member; Apache Software Foundation; **http://www.apache.org/*<http://www.apache.org/> * email: **[email protected]* <[email protected]>* cell: +94 77 3320919 blog: **http://blog.afkham.org* <http://blog.afkham.org>* twitter: **http://twitter.com/afkham_azeez*<http://twitter.com/afkham_azeez> * linked-in: **http://lk.linkedin.com/in/afkhamazeez* * * *Lean . Enterprise . Middleware* * *
