Hi,

I also agree with Tom. I do not want to have Spring in the core or in
any core parts.

BUT, even though you say it < 1%, I'd say its more than 70% at least
here in Germany. I met lot of people here who are asking for Spring
support, even though they are silent in mailing list. Spring, for some
reason, is hot here.

I even worry about bundling most of the data binding jars with our war
dist. Don't u all complain about it. Jaxme itself has four jars which
amounts to 1MB. I think we need to have a policy on data binding
frameworks as well.

So this leads us to think about how we can release a core part and let
people extend it to be used with Spring or to let them use a different
db framework that we support.

Any ideas how we can bundle all these parts and any volunteers for
Spring implementation ?

-- Chinthaka



Tom Jordahl wrote:
> “I know it when I see it” – and Spring is over the line.  J
> 
>  
> 
> How many Axis2 users will use Spring? Hard to say, but I am betting that
> <1% of users are using it right now.
> 
>  
> 
> I am happy to have ‘extra’ code in axis2.jar that supports lots of other
> technologies.  That isn’t a steep price to pay.  But if I am using the
> ‘basics’ – SOAP processing, the Axis Data Binding, WSDL generation,
> *maybe* WS-Addressing – I should have a small list of jars that I need
> to run (whether the list is small right now is probably another discussion).
> 
>  
> 
> Doesn’t that sound right?
> 
>  
> 
> P.S. I am only dimly aware of Spring, I don’t even know what it really
> does without a Google search, so I have nothing against Spring itself.
> 
>  
> 
> --
> 
> Tom Jordahl
> 
> Adobe ColdFusion Team
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> *From:* robert lazarski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> *Sent:* Tuesday, May 09, 2006 12:16 PM
> *To:* [email protected]
> *Subject:* Re: [axis2] Spring Support
> 
>  
> 
> Sure, I understand - that's why I proposed bringing back the extensions
> directory. The problem is, however, where do you draw the line?
> 
> Robert
> http://www.braziloutsource.com/
> 
> On 5/9/06, *Tom Jordahl* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
> 
> I don't use Spring, so don't make me carry the spring jar file around
> with Axis2 when I don't use it…
> 
>  
> 
> --
> 
> Tom Jordahl
> 
> Adobe ColdFusion Team
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> *From:* Rajith Attapattu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>]
> *Sent:* Monday, May 08, 2006 11:48 AM
> *To:* [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
> *Subject:* Re: [axis2] Spring Support
> 
>  
> 
> Robert,
> 
> Ok, good then as a starting point we can use your code base as you have
> already done some work on pauls stuff.
> Yes the 2MB depency does concerns me as well. But it looks like a lot of
> developers are using spring so it might not be that much of an issue
> considering the fanfare we see out there for spring.
> 
> How about pulling put the common code and refactoring the Message
> Receivers? or you want to wait till u check in the stuff and then look
> at it?
> 
> I am not sure about Data binding as well and hopefuly somebody will fill
> in the gap here.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Rajith
> 
> On 5/8/06, *robert lazarski* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
> 
> I've been using Spring with axis2 since .92, although in a way not
> everybody seems to like.
> 
> I'm working a lot on adding Spring support via a Message Reciever, but
> wanted to wait till post 1.0 . . I've mostly got it working. I'm basing
> this work of of paul's work he did last july though some things cleary
> won't work today as they were coded back then. I'm hoping to have
> something ready to commit this week, of course after discussions on the
> list. I still need to do the junit tests and work out how spring does
> annotations.
> 
> This is good time to lay out the issues:
> 
> 1) Spring is licensed under apache 2.0 .
> 2) Its yet another dependancy, the main spring.jar being about 2 megs.
> 3) We had an extensions directory, and this may be a good time to bring
> it back.
> 4) I'm unsure how to integrate a spring message reciever with
> databinding. Databinding at least for me is a critical factor. 
> 
> 
> Robert
> 
>  
> 
> On 5/8/06, *Rajith Attapattu* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
> 
> Dims,
> 
> Thats true, we cannot and should not try to satisfy everybody.
> Most people are looking for a magic wand that will create there code
> with minimum effort as possible.
> 
> Reading the thread on TSS I was sad to see that most people have missed
> the boat about Web Services.
> 
> These people expect nothing but to expose their **objects** as Web
> Services using some framework with minimum effort as possible.
> Thats as far as they are willing to go with Web Services.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> 
> Rajith
> 
>  
> 
> On 5/8/06, *Davanum Srinivas* < [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
> 
> Sure.
> 
> - Beware of people with hidden agendas. You can never please everyone.
> - Once you meet the objective criteria (say "add spring support"), you
> will hear either ("it's not easy" or "it's complicated" in other words
> "It does not meet my unspecified standards that are in my
> head"-kind-of subjective criteria.
> 
> thanks,
> dims
> 
> On 5/8/06, Rajith Attapattu < [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Looking at the thread on TSS, it looks like some people are hell bent on
>> having spring support.
>>
>> Paul already has some code (sandbox) attached to the jira  AXIS2-272
>> I looked at them and it does provide a nice way of exposing spring beans as
>> Web Services via a MessageReceiver
>>
>> I agree with Paul that there is some common code that could be refactored
>> out in the message reciver classes.
>>
>> Shall we work on this code base and provide the support these people are
>> asking for??
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Rajith
>>
> 
> 
> -- 
> Davanum Srinivas : http://wso2.com/blogs/
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