Hi Bill, I'm the primary JiBX developer. I do monitor this list, but I tend to respond very sporadically (as mentioned in Illya's response to your email - and thanks for the support, Illya!).
Unlike many open source projects, JiBX is not directly backed by any major companies. Because of this, my work on JiBX is based increasingly on what clients will pay for. Fortunately, there are a significant number of major companies who find JiBX to be a useful tool, and some are financing JiBX extensions by paying me to add enhancements that fit their needs. When I do this type of work I charge a reduced fee to the client, basically billing the client for only a fraction of the work involved. I don't make a lot doing things in this way, but I do get the satisfaction of continuing the JiBX progress while still paying the bills. Right now I'm wrapping up one project of this type, a Jibx2Wsdl tool which allows exposing an existing service interface as a Web service. This has involved a rewrite of the binding generator and schema generator tools, which make up one major part of the 1.2 release. I'll post to this list soon when I have a preliminary build of Jibx2Wsdl and the associated binding/schema generator tools ready for testing. For another client, I'm working on code generation from schema (the Xsd2Jibx replacement). This work is not as far along as the Jibx2Wsdl part of things, but I hope to have it working by the end of this month. These two projects make up the bulk of the 1.2 work. JiBX 2.0 is hopefully the next step. However, it's likely to involve 4+ months of full-time work for me to completely implement the replacement code generation (including source code generation) that I plan for 2.0. I've pitched this to one potential client in an attempt to get some financing, but so far without any results. If I can find a client to back this and provide financial support, I hope to have the first JiBX 2.0 test release by June; if not, it's likely to continue sliding. That's not a completely bad thing - over the last year or two I've added most of the features originally planned for 2.0 to the current 1.x code base - but a rewrite of the code generation, together with the binding file changes planned for 2.0, would definitely improve both usability and robustness of JiBX. I've found that most of the clients willing to pay for extensions of JiBX are using it for Web services, so that's the main focus of most of the work I'm doing at present. Because of this I spent a large part of last year on the Axis2 integration for JiBX, and continue to provide support on the Axis2 project. I'd also like to get an updated and improved release of JibxSoap out as an alternative to Axis2. I'm hoping to finally get that done by the end of this month. Hope that helps, - Dennis Dennis M. Sosnoski SOA and Web Services in Java Training and Consulting http://www.sosnoski.com - http://www.sosnoski.co.nz Seattle, WA +1-425-939-0576 - Wellington, NZ +64-4-298-6117 Bill Bailey wrote: > Does anyone know if JiBX developers monitor this list? > > Also, in general I'm wondering if anyone has experiences to share in > terms of level of support for JiBX. Let me start by saying I understand > that this is an open source project and I am fully appreciative of the > willingness of others to share the fruit of their efforts. That said, > the amount of support available simply has to be a criteria for me in > deciding whether to use a product and in the week or so I've been on > this mailing list, I've seen only questions. I think I've only seen one > person actually answer a question and that makes me a little nervous > when we're about to undertake a large effort with JiBX as one of the key > pieces. > > I would have thought my question would be a no-brainer for someone on > the dev team to answer even if the answer is just "I don't know", but I > haven't seen any response at all. > > Bill Bailey > > > On Mon, 26 Feb 2007 22:09:59 -0500, "Bill Bailey" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > >> Hi, >> >> I noticed several references to newer versions on the web site, >> including 1.2 and 2.0. It appears that the first beta version of 1.2 was >> initially planned for Jan 2007, but since it doesn't yet appear for >> download I am guessing this didn't happen per the original schedule. >> There is reference to version 2.0 being available initially in Apr 2007, >> but no further updates that I could find. >> >> Can someone provide an update regarding when each of these releases is >> expected to be available? >> >> In particular, I'm interested in some of the features that allow code >> and binding mapping generation from an XML Schema. We are planning to >> use Spring Web Services which follows a contract first approach, >> beginning with the XML Schema. Although I have found the documentation >> on the binding mappings quite good, we are a small shop (less than 3 >> full time developers) and any tools that can make us more productive >> (i.e. less hand written code) is a good thing. I like the concept of >> using the XML Schema to initially generate the Java code and mapping, >> but still having the ability to modify both the XML Schema and Java code >> as needed as the design evolves, but it appears the separate beta >> versions of these tools may not be ready for prime time. Any comments on >> what the approach might be in the interim? Until the full set of tools >> is available in 1.2 or 2.0? >> >> Thanks in advance. >> >> Bill Bailey >> Senior Developer / DBA >> Northland, A Church Distributed >> ------------------------------ >> -- Bill Bailey -- >> -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- >> ------------------------------ >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> Take Surveys. Earn Cash. 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