A new major version where just the package names changes? There are no good solutions to this. Oracle screwed this one majorly up.
fre. 6. des. 2019, 16:49 skrev Daniel Kulp <dk...@apache.org>: > > Interesting discussion… I'm honestly not sure how I feel about it. > > On one hand, it would be nice to be able to enhance the specs in the > future. On the other hand, there hasn’t been an enhancement or any plans > for an enhancement for several years. Thus, it could end up being a lot > of work and pain for nothing. > > I guess I would make JAX-WS depend on what decision is made for JAXB. If > JAXB changes, we’ll have to do a ton of work anyway. Thus, we might as > well do JAX-WS at the same time. > > The big trick will be getting the code to work with both the old > annotations and the new annotations. That might really require a lot of > work. I really don’t see how we could possibly drop support for the old > locations. They are used extensively in anything jax-ws and/or jaxb > related. Migration would potentially be a pain for everyone. > > Dan > > > > On Nov 26, 2019, at 3:49 PM, David Blevins <david.blev...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > There is a discussion and vote going on the Jakarta EE side of the fence > as to if the following APIs should be moved from javax into jakarta > namespaces. > > > > - JAXB (javax.xml.bind -> jakarta.xml.bind) > > - JAX-WS (javax.xml.ws -> jakarta.xml.ws) > > > > What "move" means is these APIs would be able to continue to evolve. If > they are not moved, they could still be supported but will be frozen > forever. At this time there is no intention of revisiting the topic in > future Jakarta EE versions and migrating things later; it's been explicitly > and widely voted down. > > > > So if JAXB and JAX-WS were to have a future in jakarta.xml.* that would > need to happen during Jakarta EE 9. > > > > As this is the project at Apache that implements JAX-WS: > > > > - Is there anyone who has ideas or desires to improve JAX-WS? > > - If they were migrated: > > - Would javax.xml -> jakarta.xml changes be welcome? > > - Are there people willing to help or do the work? > > > > Do people have any thoughts, questions or preferences? > > > > > > -- > > David Blevins > > http://twitter.com/dblevins > > http://www.tomitribe.com > > > > -- > Daniel Kulp > dk...@apache.org <mailto:dk...@apache.org> - http://dankulp.com/blog < > http://dankulp.com/blog> > Talend Community Coder - http://talend.com <http://coders.talend.com/> >
