[jbossws-dev] Q4/2006 recap

[Thomas Diesler]

Folks,

I'd like to warm heartedly and sincerely thank you for your continuous 
support during Q4/2006. We managed to

- make significant progress in JAXWS
- bring up the WS CTS to 70% of pass rate
- find our way back to a single code base. Which brings the JAXWS 
offering to the jboss-4.2, jboss-4.0 folks
- had an excellent JBW Berlin with about 180 people attending the WS 
sessions

I won't name you individually and won't point out specific features 
since you all did a great job and I would only forget stuff that is 
important to you. Regardless, be assured we could only achieve as we did 
as a team and as a team I would like to thank you. The team is not just 
the dev team, also the support team was doing an excellent job and 
making my life really easy - at least on that front ;-)

Q4/2006 was great, Q1/2007 will be even bigger and more important.

- We plan to do our 2.0.0 fully certified release by the end of this 
quarter.
- We will have proper JAXWS support and documentation, quick start, etc
- With the 2.0.0.GA release we will leave the "catching up" mode behind 
and can finally focus on new exciting areas like ESB, TX integration, 
WS-RM and others.

Currently, we have 65 open CTS issues until certification. If on average 
the team manages to resolve one issue a day, we should be done by the 
end of this quarter. There are of course many uncertainties, but thats 
probably a general truth.

Again, thanks for last quarter and I look forward to continue working 
with you.

cheers
-thomas

PS: The future is so bright, I almost need my shades.

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Thomas Diesler
Web Service Lead
JBoss, a division of Red Hat
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