I'd like everyone's thoughts on some ideas I have to do some minor restructuring for 2.3. I'm just throwing this out there as some ideas. We don't need to do any of this if people disagree or would find it annoying or similar. I just want peoples thoughts....
1) We have a bunch of xjc plugins in common/xjc that really never change. There really isn't a reason to have a 2.3 version and a 2.2.6 version and such. They are pretty much completely shareable. Thus, I'm thinking of creating an "xjc-plugins" sub-project to house these. We could just release them once and re-use them until new plugins are needed/created. common/xsd (our xjc wrapper maven plugin) would probably go there as well. 2) Likewise, buildtools and maven-plugins/xml2fastinfoset-* are really RARELY changed. I'd like to have a "build-tools" subproject for these type things. This is partially to support (1) above so the checkstyle rules and such are more shareable, but it also would remove a few modules from the build. 3) Most radical idea: I'd like to merge what's left in common/* after (1) into api. Possibly also merge parts or all of rt/core into API. If we do that, possibly just rename api to "cxf-kernel" or make it cxf-core or similar. common-utilities, api, and core are really not useable without each other at all. You cannot do much without all three so merging them together seems to make some sense. POSSIBLY tools-common as well. I need to look into that one a bit more. We COULD potentially move some stuff OUT of api/rt-core that is more ws specific (like the wsdl manager stuff) and into a ws-core or something that wouldn't be needed for JAX-RS. Not sure how much of an impact that would have. Doing 3 MAY allow better OSGi support as we really would have a "kernel" with pretty much EVERYTHING else being plugins into our kernel. There will be a slight build speedup as less modules are built and less calls to checkstyle and such, but nothing major as a majority is in the systests. Now that we've gone with Surefire 2.5, I MAY experiment with the parallel setting on a couple of the module, probably cannot on the systests though. Now, the MAIN drawback from all this would be merging fixes to 2.2.x is going to be much harder in those modules. I think that would mostly affect me though. Anyway, I'd like to know what people think about all this. -- Daniel Kulp dk...@apache.org http://www.dankulp.com/blog
