Hi Dan, I would like to contribute to the neethi 3.0. Let me know if you need any help in OSGifying Neethi.
Thanks Sameera. On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 10:09 PM, Daniel Kulp <[email protected]> wrote: > > There definitely doesn't seem to be any reservations about branching a 2.x > branch and starting work on 3.0. Thus, I'm going to go ahead and do that. > > Dan > > > > On Mon June 15 2009 10:49:59 am Daniel Kulp wrote: > > Some of you have noticed some discussions on WSCOMMONS-299. I've also > > been thinking about some of those issues and I DID have a discussion with > > Glen Daniels at TSSJS about the possibility of starting work on a Neethi > > 3.0. With the comments and stuff on WSCOMMONS-299, it might be time to > > really start it. Thus, I'd like to "svn cp" the trunk to a 2.x branch > for > > future maintenance and start making trunk 3.0. > > > > Things I'd like tackled for 3.0: > > > > 1) Java 5 - make the collections and everything typed. Use Enums where > > appropriate, etc.... Basically, general cleanup. Also, I see that many > > operations aren't threadsafe due to use of HashMap's with no > > synchronization. Possibly fix those with ConcurrentHashMaps or similar. > > > > 2) Better support for the nested policies as described in WSCOMMONS-299. > > > > 3) Change the builders to use XMLStreamReader. The Policies use > > XMLStreamWriter. For consistency, using the reader is preferred. This > > also removes Axiom as a dependency making the requirement list smaller. > > > > 4) With (3) fixed, most of the Neethi "fork" we have in CXF can be ported > > back. CXF has a few utilities and such that would be good to push back > and > > then remove from CXF. > > > > 5) Once all of that is done, it would open up the door to allow some more > > "common" Policies objects for standard policies. Some could be in > Neethi > > directly (things like policies objects for WS-Addressing assertions, mtom > > stuff, etc...). Others, like the WS-SecurityPolicy stuff could either > go > > into Neethi or might be better in WSS4J. This could help eliminate a > > BUNCH of duplicate code between users of Neethi, particularly CXF and > > Rampart. (maybe if I keep pushing similar code down into commons, we can > > have a big merger in the future. Acxfis 3? Maybe not. :-) ) > > > > 6) Support for WS-Policy 1.5. > > > > Anyway, if no one really objects to starting the 3.0 work, I'd like to > > create the 2.x branch later this week. Thoughts? > > > > BTW: This is also why I STRONGLY am in favor of Neethi staying in commons > > and not going to an Axis2 TLP. > > -- > Daniel Kulp > [email protected] > http://www.dankulp.com/blog > -- Sameera Jayasoma Software Engineer WSO2 Inc. Oxygenating the Web Service Platform. http://wso2.org/ blog: http://tech.jayasoma.org
