JBoss Community

created by Alessio Soldano in JBoss Web Services - View the announcement

Folks,

it's almost 2 years since JBossWS-CXF has been installed by default on

JBoss Application Server [1]. The integration with Apache CXF has been

working as expected and JBoss AS 7.1.0 achieved JavaEE 6 Full Profile

compliance [2] with JBossWS-CXF [3]. The transition to having

JBossWS-CXF stack as the default webservice stack is hence completed.

As a result, the JBossWS-Native stack has reached end-of-life. Starting

from 4.1.x version, it is only being updated for the sake of supporting

the few functionalities (namely JAX-RPC) that are still internally

provided through it while having JBossWS-CXF installed on the

application server. Unless consistent contribution comes from the

community, there's not going to be any more JBossWS-Native binary /

sources distribution release at [4]. Previous JBossWS-Native releases

will stay available for download and use on the supported target

containers [5].

From the current jbossws-native svn trunk few new versions (4.1.x) of

JBossWS-Native libraries / artifacts are most probably going to be

produced and uploaded to the Maven repository, but those are going to

follow specific JBoss AS and/or JBossWS (CXF) integration needs only.

A 4.0.x contribution branch (derived from JBossWS-Native 4.0.2.GA tag)

has been created and is available at [6] for whoever in the community

will be willing to work on that (for instance for supporting future AS

versions).

This does not change anything from a product point of view; Red Hat is

of course still committed to fully supporting the JBossWS-Native stack

in the products already including it (e.g. JBoss EAP 5) as per

subscriptions contents.

Cheers

[2]

Announcement expires on March 31, 2013