Nandana, +1 from me for you to be the Release Manager for 1.4.1
IMHO, we should use 1.4 branch. The *ONLY* change should be the security change. Nothing more. thanks, dims On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 6:50 AM, Nandana Mihindukulasooriya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would like to volunteer to be the release manager for Axis2 1.4.1. > > I think we can fix the critical issues in the 1.4 branch (or a 1.4.1 branch > ) and do the 1.4.1 release. I don't think doing 1.4.1 from the trunk is the > appropriate way as trunk is now java 1.5 and has lot of major changes after > Axis2 1.4 . However we can fix any issues that are not already fixed in the > trunk at the same time when we fix those in the branch. > > Hope this is oky with Axis2 release guidelines. > > thanks, > nandana > > On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 6:39 PM, Davanum Srinivas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> IMHO, The logic is the same as for blockers. If there is a work >> around, it's not a blocker. So i am +0 on a 1.4.1 since there is a >> work around that can be documented. >> >> That said, If someone is willing to drive a 1.4.1 as the release >> manager, please do go ahead. >> >> thanks, >> dims >> >> On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 2:48 AM, Sanka Samaranayake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > For the users who is already using 1.4 version, the workaround would be >> > to >> > define policies in services.xml without using <wsa:PolicyAttachment>. >> > Then >> > the problem is that those policies will appear in <wsdl:PortType> which >> > is >> > not correct but security will apply for both format of service URLs. >> > >> > Hence +1 for fixing that issue and do 1.4.1 release. >> > >> > Thanks, >> > Sanka >> > >> > >> > On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 8:59 PM, Nandana Mihindukulasooriya >> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >> >> Hi, >> >> There are few issues with Axis2 1.4 / Rampart 1.4 with the new >> >> policy >> >> configuration. The new policy configuration which allows us to apply >> >> policies to binding hierarchy is a great feature when in comes to ws >> >> security policy configuration. It allows security policies to be >> >> attached to >> >> the correct attachment points. But there are few issues that need to be >> >> fixed in Axis2 1.4. I will list them below. >> >> 1.) If we configure security using new configuration, service can >> >> be >> >> accessed without security. >> >> In Axis2 1.4, a service is exposed in two EPRs (consider SOAP >> >> 1.1 >> >> binding). >> >> eg. >> >> >> >> >> >> http://localhost:8080/axis2/services/SecureService.SecureServiceHttpSoap11Endpoint >> >> http://localhost:8080/axis2/services/SecureService >> >> But if we you set the policies using the new configuration, >> >> if >> >> you do a web service call to the older EPR, you can access the service >> >> without any security even though it is secured using the binding >> >> hierarchy. >> >> This happens because if we call the old EPR, it is not dispatched to a >> >> binding. But this leaves the service vulnerable. I think we should >> >> dispatch >> >> to one of the bindings may be using soap envelope version if we have >> >> only >> >> one binding with that soap version. We should have a way to dispatch >> >> messages which comes to old EPR to one of the bindings else we should >> >> have >> >> an option to disable that EPR. >> >> >> >> 2.) In the out flow, policies are not set correctly in the binding >> >> message. >> >> This is fixed in the trunk but this bug is there in Axis2 >> >> 1.4. >> >> >> >> So the option we have is to configure security using the old >> >> configuration. But then the problem is policies are attached to the >> >> port >> >> type which is the correct way to do if we have policies using >> >> <service>,<operation><message> tags. But this makes Axis2 not >> >> interoperable >> >> as security policies should be attached to binding hierarchy according >> >> WS >> >> Security policy specification. Ideally we should always use the new >> >> configuration to apply security. And code generation also doesn't work >> >> correctly when the policies attached to the port type (polices are not >> >> correctly attached to the stub). >> >> >> >> So I think it would be great if can consider a Axis2 1.4.1 with >> >> these >> >> things fixed. >> >> >> >> thanks, >> >> nandana >> > >> > >> > -- >> > Sanka Samaranayake >> > WSO2 Inc. >> > >> > http://sankas.blogspot.com/ >> > http://www.wso2.org/ >> >> >> >> -- >> Davanum Srinivas :: http://davanum.wordpress.com >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > -- Davanum Srinivas :: http://davanum.wordpress.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
