The proposal look ok for me. I only suggest to explicitly mention that the modules used by Harmony should be available for download separately from Geronimo itself.
Thanks for moving this task! SY, Alexey 2007/11/15, Matt Hogstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I'm following up on a previous todo that was constructing a proposal > to CXF and Geronimo for absorbing the code-base of Yoko. Rick McGuire > gently nudged me yesterday to remind me about this (thanks Rick) and > graciously offered to help propose the division. This note is a > consolidation of that work. > > I believe the easiest way to proceed is to draft a proposal that we > will send to both Apache Geronimo and Apache CXF. Apache CXF is still > in incubation so I'm not sure if there are any specific issues with > doing this while they are incubating. I'm copying the Incubator PMC > for their input on this proposal to make sure we have all the i's > dotted and t's crossed. > > Once we have incorporated people's comments and approved this proposal > I will take it forward to the respective PMCs for their comments. > Depending on their responses we will formulate the next steps. > > For now, please review this proposal and post your comments and input. > > > > Proposed Code Donation from Project Yoko to Apache CXF and Apache > Geronimo > > The Yoko community has been successful in delivering several > milestones of the ORB implementation while in the Apache Incubator. > These milestones are used by other Apache projects (namely Geronimo > and Harmony) to support their releases. The WebServices bindings are > dependent on CXF. The Yoko community has decided that the Yoko > project does not have quite the momentum to carry itself as an > independent project but has sufficient value for other projects for > them to consider receiving the code and committers for that code-base > as sub-projects. > > The proposed division is: > > yoko-spec-corba - this is the org.omg interface classes. > rmi-spec - this is the javax.rmi spec implementation > core - This is the actual ORB implementation. > rmi-impl - This is the implementation of the RMIIIOP support. > > These modules are also used by Harmony. > > In addition to the code we propose that the following committers in > Apache Yoko be accepted as committers in Apache Geronimo given their > demonstration of delivering code, creating releases and functioning as > a community. Those noted with asterisks are already Geronimo > committers. > > Continued involvement with the core: > > Rick McGuire * > David Jencks * > Alan Cabrera * > Alexey Petrenko > Darren Middleman > > The remainder of the modules in Yoko are part of the webservices > support and are independent of the underlying ORB implementation. > > api -- interface classes used for the web services support. > bindings -- code to implement the CORBA-Web services bindings. > tools -- tools for generation WSDL and IDL for the bindings > maven-plugin -- some maven plugins that can use the tools for > generating binding-related build artifacts. None of the maven-plugin > code is used by the ORB. > > There is also a distribution directory with some sample applications. > One set of samples demonstrates using the core ORB, the other set is > for WebServices. We recommend that the distribution directory should > move to Apache CXF as the webservices examples use the orb samples to > bind them as web services. Since Apache Geronimo's only use of CORBA > is for exporting EJBs, these samples are not particularly valuable for > Geronimo. > > The Yoko community did not have any committers that expressed an > interest in continuing work on these bindings. As such, only the code > would be moving to apache CXF. > > Thanks, > > Matt >
