Glen,

Note that you merged the change from trunk to the 1.5 branch in r727458...

Andreas

On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 15:48, Glen Daniels <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Amila,
>
> The Rampart build was broken with the Axis2 1.5 branch, and Andreas
> clued me in that the problem was that change 727413 (adding the -lcmn
> option) hadn't been made on the branch.  After taking a look at that
> change, I'm going to belatedly -1 it for Axis2.
>
> Here's my reasoning.  First and foremost, the change was implemented not
> by changing the JavaUtils.xmlNameToJavaIdentifier() method (for instance
> by adding another override with a flag), but by simply not calling it
> unless the lcmn option was specified.  This is seriously broken - it
> means that if we have a WSDL method name "Foo-Bar", we'll now by default
> codegen this into a Java method "Foo-Bar()"... which of course WON'T
> COMPILE.  Second, almost as important, by changing the /default/
> behavior instead of adding an option to invoke different behavior, we've
> broken all of our users' codegen builds if they happen to use XML
> identifiers which are uppercase or contain Java-incompatible characters.
>  The fact that we needed to change the Rampart build to avoid a new
> breakage should have been a dead giveaway - there are times when
> incompatible change is inevitable and ok, but this was not one of them.
>
> Please revert this change immediately, and let's reconsider what you
> were trying to do with it on the list.
>
> Also, this points out the fact that nowhere in our tests do we have
> anything that tries various combinations of XML-to-Java to confirm that
> WSDL2Java does the right thing with XML names like "Foo-Bar", etc.  I'll
> open a JIRA on that.
>
> Thanks,
> --Glen
>

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