Hi dan, But should the idlj tool reside in cxf? What use will it be if it is in cxf? If Geronimo is not interested in the yoko JAX-WS portion, then harmony might be a good candidate to make yoko as a sub-project.
- Balaji -----Original Message----- From: Daniel Kulp [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2007 11:53 AM To: yoko-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] Project Status On Tuesday 31 July 2007 15:14, Lars Kühne wrote: > Daniel Kulp wrote: > > 1) The core orb and related stuff. > > Basically, "core", "yoko-spec-corba", "rmi-spec", and "rmi-impl". > > These are definitely the things Geronimo and Harmony are most > > interested in. > > > > 2) The "Web Service" binding components. > > The "api", "bindings", "tools", and "maven-plugin" modules. > > These consist mostly of plugins to CXF, tooling around those, etc... > > to allow the use of the CXF apis (JAX-WS) to communicate with CORBA > > apps. > > > > The stuff in #2 actually has no dependency on the stuff in #1. The > > binding stuff should work with almost any ORB. (Kind of evident by > > the threads from Lukas getting it to work with Jacorg.) However, > > #2 is heavily dependent on CXF. When CXF makes major changes, it > > tends to break that stuff. Also, that has caused issues with the > > release schedules as it kind of ties to the Yoko releases to CXF > > releases. > > > > > > So, my question is, would another TLP be interested in BOTH parts or > > should we look into splitting them? > > I'd be OK with that, but does Harmony need an IDL compiler (idlj > clone)? If so, the IDL preprocessor/parser in "tools" would have to > live in both worlds somehow... Hmm... good point. Couple of possible responses: 1) With maven, it doesn't really matter as long as it's in it's own jar. No matter where it ends up, they could just pull in that one jar as a dependency. (CXF is maven based and could easily break this out if needed.) 2) If harmony needs JAX-WS for 1.6, I would strongly suggest using CXF anyway since, at this point, it's the only Apache Licensed, standalone certified, JAX-WS implementation and the CXF community is a bunch of really cool people to work with. (caveat being I'm quite biased) :-) Thus, they'd get the jar anyway. I guess the question is: does Geronimo need a idlj? If not, does it make sense to even put it there at all? -- J. Daniel Kulp Principal Engineer IONA P: 781-902-8727 C: 508-380-7194 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dankulp.com/blog
