Hi Andreas,
first of all, thank you for your answer.
Am 16.05.2011 21:40, schrieb Andreas Veithen:
I'm wondering whether Axis (not Axis2) is still being developed.
No. Since a picture says more than a thousand words:
http://svnsearch.org/svnsearch/repos/ASF/search?path=%2Fwebservices%2Faxis%2Ftrunk%2Fjava
Thats no surprise, I was just wondering because of the lack of some
official statement on e.g. http://ws.apache.org/axis/
There are no official plans to do a bug fix release of Axis. We even
had discussions to "attic" Axis 1 completely.
That being said, I'm facing a similar issue than you. At work, we have
a couple of applications that still use Axis 1 and they are all
affected by the class loader leak described in AXIS-2674. I think
nobody would object to doing a maintenance release, as long as there a
volunteers to handle it. The problem is that it is non trivial to do
that:
1. The build and release system is antiquated and probably no longer
conforms to the ASF guidelines. I guess that one would have to migrate
it to Maven 2, which is probably not that difficult (and almost
certainly easier than upgrading some obscure Ant scripts) but would
require some reshuffling of the directory structure.
So I understand it correctly: To do a maintenance release of an ASF
project it needs to be updated to the current version of the ASF
guidelines. Thus, it's not sufficient to simply correct the specific
parts in the code and run the existing Ant build script to create the
binaries.
3. I think that the 1.4 release was not properly tagged in SVN. One
would first have to locate the branch and revision from which the
release was created in order to have a well defined base line for a
maintenance release.
That sure is a problem. Also see another comment regarding subversion below.
Probably the most realistic option is to create a branch from the 1.4
release (after locating the correct revision), mavenize that branch
and abandon the current trunk (after recovering some selected
changes), i.e. all "development" would happen on that branch, knowing
that there will never be an Axis 1.5 release from the trunk.
Thats IMHO to much work for a) a some small number of bugs and b) in the
meanwhile outdated project.
Are you willing to help with this?
For the time being I am not able to make a statement to this.
Sourcecode access as proposed in http://axis.apache.org/axis/cvs.html does
not work anymore. I cannot upgrade to Axis2, because I am restricted to JDK
1.4.
The source code was moved when we graduated to an Apache top level
project, and is now here:
http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/axis/axis1/java/trunk/
And if I see this correctly all SVN history was dropped which in fact
makes it harder to retrieve version 1.4.
Regards,
Simon
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