You guys have done a great job! Looking forward to 2.2.6.
Craig.
On 8-Jan-10, at 9:28 AM, Daniel Kulp wrote:
We've had several people ask about these this week so I wanted to
send out a
wider mail with my thoughts and plans around these releases to make
everyone
aware of them.
First: 2.1.9 - as discussed a couple months ago on the dev list,
2.1.9 will
be the last release on the 2.1.x line at Apache. The migration
from 2.1.x to
2.2.x is normally fairly easy. See the migration guide at:
http://cxf.apache.org/22-migration-guide.html
All users are encouraged to start migrating if at all possible.
2.1.x has
been out for almost 21 months and 2.2 for almost a year. By not
doing merges
and such to 2.1.x, we can more easily concentrate on getting 2.3
done and out.
That means if you need things fixed for 2.1.9, get patches in
ASAP. :-)
2.1.9/2.2.6 - The current plan is to do the builds for these
sometime during
the week of the 18th. Thus, by Monday the 25th, it should be at
central
and on the mirrors and such and there should be an announcement of the
release. If you have patches and stuff that need to be
incorporated into
these releases, get them logged in JIRA ASAP.
HOWEVER, these releases depend on a release of Jettison 1.2 since we
currently
require a SNAPSHOT of it. Dejan is hoping to do that release next
week
sometime which would be fine for us, but if that gets delayed at
all, we'll
need to delay a bit. (Again, if you have any Jettison fixes, get
them in
ASAP as well)
2.2.6 and 2.1.9 contain a TON of bug fixes. Over the last several
months,
we've really concentrated on getting the JIRA bug queue down.
That's been
great for 2.2.6 and the stability of CXF in general, but we haven't
done much
toward getting 2.3 out because of that. Once these releases are
out the
door, I hope to really be able to again concentrate on the missing
things for
2.3 and get that out early in Q2. Hopefully in early April.
Obviously,
there is still a bit of work to do to get there (and we need to get
the JAX-RS
1.1 TCK), but I'm hoping that it can be done for April. There is a
lot of
exciting things in 2.3 that I'd like to get out there:
1) JAX-RS 1.1
2) All the new annotations:
http://cxf.apache.org/23-migration-guide.html
http://cxf.apache.org/docs/annotations.html
3) SDO databinding
4) SOAP over JMS spec compliance
5) Improved memory footprint and startup times
etc...
One thing that will probably NOT be in 2.3 is JAX-WS 2.2 support
unless some
sudden demand pops up for it. Using JAX-WS 2.2 with Java6 is a
real pain
(requires endorsing jars and such) which is a pretty large burden
for users.
Thus, we'll probably delay this till 2.4 or maybe create a separate
"jaxws22"
module that extends the 2.1 module or something.
Anyway, that's the state of things from my viewpoint. Any thoughts
or ideas
from others would be appreciated. Patches are always welcome as
well. :-)
--
Daniel Kulp
[email protected]
http://www.dankulp.com/blog
