[jbossws-dev] JBossWS-Native stack reached EOL

[DAVID C BOEREN]

I, for one, welcome our new CXF overlords.

It's the end of an era though :)

On Mar 20, 2012, at 10:37 AM, Alessio Soldano wrote:

> 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
> 
> [1] https://community.jboss.org/wiki/JBossWSOnAS6M4ReleaseNotes
> [2]
> http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javaee/community/jboss-ee6-full-compat-1525034.html
> [3] http://jbossws.blogspot.it/2012/02/jboss-application-server-710.html
> [4] http://www.jboss.org/jbossws/downloads
> [5] https://community.jboss.org/docs/DOC-13569
> [6]
> http://anonsvn.jboss.org/repos/jbossws/stack/native/branches/jbossws-native-4.0-community
> 
> -- 
> Alessio Soldano
> Web Service Lead, JBoss
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