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

[Mark Little]

We answered this already, right?

Mark.


On 10 Mar 2008, at 13:53, Thomas Diesler wrote:

> 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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