[jbossws-dev] Re: Web Service Stack for EAP 5

[Thomas Diesler]

Hi Folks,

We discussed this topic on Friday last week during our internal team 
workshop. As a result we came up with the idea of defining the set of 
required functionality for an enterprise ready web service stack and 
compare what we currently have in all three stacks. The result of this 
comparison would give us a clearer idea of how we want to move forward 
and how we distribute our available resources.

http://jbws.dyndns.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=JBossWSSupportedStackComparison

Native is the only certified stack, integration work for WS-TX pending, 
weak in the tools area.

CXF has javaee5 certification pending, integration and documentation of 
extended functionality pending.

Metro has javaee5 certification pending, integration and documentation 
of extended functionality pending. Metro is also considering their offer 
complete.

My preferred strategy would be to gradually unlock more of the Metro/CXF 
functionality (maybe 20% of our time) and start the TCK effort for one 
of the stacks when/if we decide to replace our default stack. But 
instead of jumping to a conclusion, I would like to bounce this back to 
you for feedback.

cheers
-thomas


Mark Little wrote:
> I would have thought that JBossWS-native is the tier 1 because we know 
> we can support it now and then Metro and CXF as tier 2/3. Obviously 
> things may change in subsequent releases, as long as backward 
> compatibility isn't broken.
> 
> Mark.
> 
> 
> On 6 Mar 2008, at 22:16, Andrig T Miller wrote:
> 
>> Mark and Thomas,
>>
>>      Since we all are now on the same page about what version of our 
>> WS stack is in AS 5, the question now for EAP 5, is which web service 
>> stack, our own JBoss Native, CXF or Metro are we actually going to 
>> ship with EAP 5.  Of course, whatever version it is needs to pass the 
>> Java EE 5 TCK, and not be missing anything we have supported from a 
>> feature perspective in previous EAP releases (4.2 and 4.3).  The 
>> consensus, in the discussion so far, is that we also only want to ship 
>> one, and hence support one stack.
>>
>> Thoughts?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Andrig (Andy) Miller
>> VP of Engineering
>> JBoss, a division of Red Hat
>>
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