Hi Sal, This sounds good. Bringing IBM on board and adding Eclipse tooling support would be great! +1
-Simeon -----Original Message----- From: Sal Campana [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2006 1:56 PM To: [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: Muse++ - The future of the Muse Project We are currently looking at merging the three Apache projects (WSRF, Pubscribe and Muse) into a single entity under the Muse project. While I have done some work on this there have been other things happening which have made me reconsider the project as a whole. We have been talking with a team at IBM, whom we work with through the spec committees, to do a joint next-generation implementation of WSDM, and its sub-specifications. The implementation would not only position the WSDM effort in a more future-proof way (i.e. move towards WSDM 2.0), but continue to move the project forward in a positive direction. IBM has code which they would like to contribute as the foundation for this effort. The code will initially be run in Axis2 which would please those who are seeking an Axis2 implementation of WSDM (WSRF,WSRN, etc). IBM is willing to contribute base code, which will be reviewed by us, and developers to the effort. IBM would like to be part of moving the Apache WSDM effort forward, and is excited about the possibilities of being part of the project. They are even planning on contributing tooling around this effort to the Eclipse Project. I believe this to be the right thing to do for the direction of the Muse project. Bringing IBM to the project will entice more users, generate more interest in the project and bring more active committers moving the effort forward. Here is my +1 for this effort. I hope others will join me in support of this. I apologize that I have not been forthcoming thus far, however I had to consider the legal side of things before making any statements regarding this.
