[jbossws-dev] [Design of JBoss Web Services] - JBossWS brings Metro/CXF but in waht version?

[thomas.diesler@jboss.com]

Folks,

we are about to release jbossws-2.0.3.GA on 1-Feb-2008. So far we communicated that jbossws-2.1 will come with plugablility for Metro and CXF and the release criteria was that all three stacks pass a common jax-ws testsuite that is defined in our framework module.


  |   The JBossWS project is organised like this
  |   
  |                           +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~+  +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~+  +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~+  +~~~~+
  |   Target Container:       |     AS-5.0      |  |     AS-4.2      |  |      AS-4.0     |  |    | 
  |                           +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~+  +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~+  +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~+  |    |
  |                           +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~+  +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~+  +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~+  |    |
  |   Container Integration:  | jbossws-jboss50 |  | jbossws-jboss42 |  | jbossws-jboss40 |  |    |
  |                           +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~+  +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~+  +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~+  |    |
  |                           +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~+  |    |
  |   WS Framework:           |      jbossws-spi, jbossws-framework, jbossws-common       |  |    |
  |                           +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~+  |    |
  |                           +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~+  +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~+  +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~+  |    |
  |   WS Stack Integration:   | jbossws-native  |  |  jbossws-metro  |  |   jbossws-cxf   |  |    |
  |                           +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~+  +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~+  +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~+  |    |
  |                           +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~+  +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~+  +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~+  |    |
  |   WS Stack:               |   jbossws-core  |  |   Sun Metro     |  |   Apache CXF    |  |    |
  |                           +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~+  +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~+  +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~+  |    |
  |   WS-* Extensions:        +~+ +~+              +~+ +~+              +~+ +~+              |    |
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  |                           +~+ +~+              +~+ +~+              +~+ +~+              +~~~~+
  |                                                                                      JAXWS Testsuite  
  | 

For both stacks Metro and CXF the testsuite passes except a few minor issues that we currently cannot make progress because of some cooperation details with Sun/Apache that would need to be resolved.

In short, I would like to release jbossws-2.1 (maybe called jbossws-3.0) for JBossWorld and anounce that we have pluggable stacks available for public consumtion.

What I am not sure about however is the versioning scheme of our upcomming releases. The version number appears in 

* Download file (i.e. jbossws-native-2.0.2.GA)
* JIRA version (i.e. roadmap, changelog)
* SVN tag
* Binary repository

All of the above follow the same version scheme. 

Given that all stacks have an independent live cycle and are essentially standalone projects (as reflected in our SVN structure) I find it difficult to come up with an adequate versioning scheme


  | * jbossws-native-2.1.0
  | * jbossws-metro-2.1.0
  | * jbossws-cxf-2.1.0
  | 
  |   | 
  |   | poses the question where is jbossws-metro-1.0.0. Also eight weeks later we might not have changes in all three stacks - do we redundantly release all three stacks or only the stacks that have actually changed? 
  |   | 
  |   | 
  |   |   | * jbossws-native-2.0.3
  |   |   | * jbossws-metro-1.0.0
  |   |   | * jbossws-cxf-1.0.0
  |   |   | 
  |   |   |   | 
  |   |   |   | Misses the point that a new area (pluggable stacks) has begun and it would make little sense to talk about jbossws-2.1 if there is no download and no jira roadmap for it.
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  |   |   |   | 
  |   |   |   |   | * jbossws-2.1.0-native-2.0.3
  |   |   |   |   | * jbossws-2.1.0-metro-1.0.0
  |   |   |   |   | * jbossws-2.1.0-cxf-1.0.0
  |   |   |   |   | 
  |   |   |   |   |   | 
  |   |   |   |   |   | Is another possibility that would transport the idea of a fast moving jbossws framework project (8 week release cycle) with independent release cycles for the containing stacks.
  |   |   |   |   |   | 
  |   |   |   |   |   | Generally, I would like to stick to the jbossws brand with a single version, which would get lost if we talk about three independent projects.
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  |   |   |   |   |   | I am interested to hear your feedback
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  |   |   |   |   |   | cheers
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