Re: So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish

2007-09-29 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
On 9/29/07, Davanum Srinivas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear WS folks, hey dims FYI, I've asked to resign from the WS PMC as i strongly believe that a PMC member should actively participates on the projects. Unfortunately due to circumstances beyond my control/comprehension, i'll not be able

Re: Extensions and revisions to SimpleHTTPServer

2006-05-18 Thread robert burrell donkin
On 5/18/06, Davanum Srinivas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip The long term plan is to use HttpCore in HttpComponents. See thread: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=axis-devw=2r=1s=httpcomponentsq=bAgain, Please don't use what exists now in production now :) Pleaseping/watch the httpcomponents guys

[Axis2][Axis1] Jakarta Commons Logging 1.1: Call For Help Testing Latest Release Candidate

2006-03-20 Thread robert burrell donkin
JCL 1.1 is believed to address the majority of issues which have troubled users of the JCL 1.0.x releases. it is binary compatibility. it's taken a lot of work and a long time but hopefully it'll be worth it. the 1.1 code base is mature. the release candidates have been tested and have proved

[Axis2] Running test from top level

2006-03-19 Thread robert burrell donkin
i'm getting some test failures when running the top level build on MacOSX. are there any known limitations with this? - robert

Re: Problems with commons-logging - Very interesting

2005-12-21 Thread robert burrell donkin
On 12/21/05, Ceki Gülcü [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 09:16 PM 12/20/2005, robert burrell donkin wrote: On 12/20/05, Ceki Gülcü [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: how credible are the claims that the problems have been fixed? sigh please: let's not get personal Robert, My intention

Re: Problems with commons-logging - Very interesting

2005-12-20 Thread robert burrell donkin
On 12/19/05, Tom Jordahl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One of my developers found this very interesting paper on the problemsusing commons-logging (like Axis 1.x does) while trying to upgradeColdFusion's log4j implementation from 1.1 to 1.2. http://www.qos.ch/logging/classloader.jsp a few points i'd

Re: Problems with commons-logging - Very interesting

2005-12-20 Thread robert burrell donkin
On 12/20/05, Ceki Gülcü [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, 1 IIRC all the factual errors in earlier versions have been correctly but IMO there are a (small) number of opinions which may be misleading to those without a deep understanding of classloaders. Have the vulnerabilities in

Re: [Axis2] 0.93 Release

2005-12-02 Thread robert burrell donkin
On 12/2/05, Steve Loughran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: robert burrell donkin wrote: i really hate to do this but i have to -1 http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/webservices/axis2/trunk/java/modules/core/src/org/apache/axis2/fault/AbstractFaultCode.java the ASF cannot risk shipping code with dubious

Re: [ANN] [Axis2] Axis2 0.93 Released

2005-12-02 Thread robert burrell donkin
On 12/2/05, Eran Chinthaka [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Apache Axis2 team is proud to announce the 0.93 release. thanks for all the hard work and hope you didn't have to stay up too late... - robert

Re: [Axis2] Wrong licence (LGPL ???) in o.a.axis2.fault.*

2005-12-01 Thread robert burrell donkin
it's probably more serious than that: if this code has been published elsewhere then the ASF *really* *must* have the legal paperwork. it's no good just changing the copyright notice - in fact, this is exactly the wrong thing to do. we *must* have software grants for any code that is not created

Re: [Axis2] 0.93 Release

2005-12-01 Thread robert burrell donkin
i really hate to do this but i have to -1 http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/webservices/axis2/trunk/java/modules/core/src/org/apache/axis2/fault/AbstractFaultCode.java the ASF cannot risk shipping code with dubious provinence. - robert On 12/1/05, Thilina Gunarathne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: +1,

Re: [Axis2] 0.93 Release

2005-12-01 Thread robert burrell donkin
On 12/2/05, Davanum Srinivas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Robert, if i remove the offending classes, is that enough to remove your -1? yes i'm now +1 thanks - robert

Re: axis2-0.93-dev

2005-11-19 Thread robert burrell donkin
On 11/19/05, Eran Chinthaka [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, isn't that one of the things we want. For example, when Synapse orSandesha2 depends on Axis2 and they want to get the latest jar. I thinkthats the best.We can have a nightly buid mechanism and make it available via maven. +1 AFAIK maven

Re: [Axis2] Axis2 packaging

2005-10-27 Thread robert burrell donkin
On 10/25/05, Eran Chinthaka [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Robert and All, robert burrell donkin wrote: 2. Shall we make our Axis2.war file a separate download, and not putting some random musings...On 10/24/05, Eran Chinthaka [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip it in dist-bin ? Some people

Re: javax.qname

2005-10-25 Thread robert burrell donkin
On 10/25/05, Steve Loughran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Who owns the apache implementation of javax.qname? IIRC xml-commons keeps a canonical version but it's probably best asking this question again on that list... - robert

Re: [Axis2] Axis2 packaging

2005-10-25 Thread robert burrell donkin
some random musings... On 10/24/05, Eran Chinthaka [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all,We all know that we have a small problem with our packaging of distros. We were telling lot of things about this here and there, but no solidsolution so far. IMHO this is part is of a bigger problem concerning

Re: [Axis2][Java-XML Tool] mapping view

2005-10-03 Thread robert burrell donkin
On 9/30/05, Mark Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: will this eventually be part of betwixt? No (for a couple of reasons).It's out-of-scope for jakarta commons but (more importantly) the ambitions are a little bigger than just a useful UI for Betwixt. It emerged out of talks Dennis, Dan and I

Re: [axis2] VOTE: Eric Johnson for committer

2005-10-03 Thread robert burrell donkin
On 10/3/05, Sanjiva Weerawarana [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi,I'd like to nominate Eric Johnson to be an Axis2 committer .. he's doingyeoman service by fixing up docs; something we can all learn from :).Here's my vote: +1. +1 - robert

Re: [axis2] VOTE: Chamil Thanthrimudalige for committer

2005-10-03 Thread robert burrell donkin
On 10/2/05, Sanjiva Weerawarana [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chamil has developed the SMTP transport for Axis2 and contributed abunch of patches and is working on perf profiling and looking atmultithreading issue. I think its time to make him a committer!Here's my vote: +1. +1 - robert

[Axis2] Release Strategy

2005-09-30 Thread robert burrell donkin
I'd glad that the team decided to release the last cut as 0.9.2 rather than 1.0 Alpha and I'd like to explain my reasons in a little more depth (now that the release is cut). I think everyone appreciates the efforts that have been put into get this far. IMHO Axis2 0.9.2 is a more appropriate

Re: Any tools for converting java class to xml schema ?

2005-09-20 Thread robert burrell donkin
On 9/19/05, Kr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Robert, Your site is very interesting. I have packaged class and how do I feed it to your tool at http://people.apache.org/~rdonkin/tool.html ? since even if I keep my class in classpath your tool is not able to recognize it . the code is just

Re: Any tools for converting java class to xml schema ?

2005-09-18 Thread robert burrell donkin
On 9/14/05, Kr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Are there any tools out there that can convert my java class to xml schema. How such tools take care of java collections like HashTable, ArrayList etc. in my class structure. I am not interested in writing any configuration files(like jaxb

Re: [Axis2] Doesn't addressing classes come bundled with axis2-0.91.jar?

2005-09-11 Thread robert burrell donkin
On 9/10/05, Glen Daniels [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip it might also be worth considering using uberjar and jarjar to create an absolutely standard release jar contain all dependencies. (axis2-standard.jar, say.) If I understand your meaning correctly, I'd think complete would be

[Axis2][Java-XML Tool] mapping view

2005-09-11 Thread robert burrell donkin
it seems to have gone a little quiet but i have been working on fleshing out some of the ideas for the mapping view discussed earlier. i've pulling some ideas together here http://people.apache.org/~rdonkin/tool (mapping1.html is new). they are a bit rough but hopefully understandable. comments

Re: [Axis2] Doesn't addressing classes come bundled with axis2-0.91.jar?

2005-09-10 Thread robert burrell donkin
On 9/9/05, Dennis Sosnoski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is the axis2.jar intended to be minimal, for client use and such? If so, it seems like wsdl should be left out, too. (without wanting to ignite naming wars) modes sounds like a very cool idea but it may be confusing for users if they are all

Re: [Axis2] Axis2 site

2005-09-01 Thread robert burrell donkin
On 9/1/05, Eran Chinthaka [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip so, safe to go ahead now. you'll need to svn up on people.apache.org. What do u mean by svn up in people.apache.org ? I just did svn up for xdocs and site/trunk/targets/axis2 didn't see anything changed. the tidy up was for with

Re: axis web site down ?

2005-08-31 Thread robert burrell donkin
On 8/31/05, Dru Devore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can't even get to the http://ws.apache.org/axis page. It is giving me a directory listing only. hi Dru sorry about that the upgrade from CVS to SVN ran into a few technical hitches (with permissions) at a bad time. i'm fixing it now but it

Re: [Axis2] Axis2 site

2005-08-31 Thread robert burrell donkin
On 8/31/05, Eran Chinthaka [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Robert and all, I made some changes to the site and commited them to xdocs. Those changes were basically due to our new svn move. I didn't build and commit the site. I'm waiting for your cleanup. good cleaned up now. still a

Re: [Axis2] Eclipse for Java-XML tool [was Better Java-XML mapping]

2005-08-30 Thread robert burrell donkin
On 8/26/05, Ajith Ranabahu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Dan, I'm not a hardcore Eclipse guy but I've done some Eclipse work (including the Axis2 ones :)) and have some knowledge of how Eclipse works. when Eclipse GUI' s are needed (Lets say an editor winow) it has to implement an Eclipse

Re: [Axis2] Axis2 site

2005-08-30 Thread robert burrell donkin
On 8/30/05, Eran Chinthaka [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Robert, From where are you trying to build the site ? This security jar should come without a problem. Anyway try maven before you run maven multiproject, from the root of the project. works fine for me now :) BTW, the site is

Re: [Axis2] Axis2 site

2005-08-30 Thread robert burrell donkin
On 8/30/05, Davanum Srinivas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please update our web site to pick up stuff from the svn repo. in progress... dims: i could really do with a chgrp -R ws /www/ws.apache.org/ very quick (before the mirrors sync the deletes). there's some stuff in there which isn't in SVN.

Re: [Axis2] Better Java-XML mapping

2005-08-29 Thread robert burrell donkin
On 8/25/05, Dan Diephouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry for the delayed response. Been a busy week. snip robert burrell donkin wrote: java classes and primitives have a natural correspondence to types. primitives naturally correspond to simple types whereas classes may correspond

Re: [Axis2] Better Java-XML mapping

2005-08-29 Thread robert burrell donkin
On 8/26/05, Manoj Mallawaarachchie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Is this similer to SOAP Encoding. I mean type mapping with XML and java objects.? this thread rose originally tangentially from SOAP encoding issues. it's concerns the start-from-java approach to mapping xml and java objects.

Re: [Axis2] Eclipse for Java-XML tool [was Better Java-XML mapping]

2005-08-29 Thread robert burrell donkin
On 8/25/05, Dan Diephouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not that experienced with eclipse plugins, but I think theoretically we should be able to do a standalone version and a plugin version if it is developed as an eclipse plugin. The standalone version just wouldn't get the refactoring

Re: [Axis2] Databinding API issues

2005-08-28 Thread robert burrell donkin
On 8/22/05, Dennis Sosnoski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Venkat Reddy wrote: snip - Lastly, Axis2 relies on data-binding during code-generation time, and not during run-time. This means that the client programming model is a bit restricted to using static stubs, rather than DII or dynamic

Re: [Axis2] ignoring more directories

2005-08-28 Thread robert burrell donkin
On 8/25/05, robert burrell donkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi eran dims is right: i haven't updated the website yet. - robert On 8/25/05, Davanum Srinivas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Eran, i don't think so (haven't seen any cvs commits go by). so please update the site. i ran maven

Re: [Axis2] Better Java-XML mapping

2005-08-26 Thread robert burrell donkin
On 8/19/05, Dan Diephouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip To clarify the use cases: 1. Schema exists, but no java code 2. Java code exists, but no schema 3. Both schema and java exist. How do we map between them, even when there is very little correlation betwen java and schema. Each one is

[jira] Commented: (AXIS2-162) [PATCH][document] release download page

2005-08-24 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin (JIRA)
[ http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AXIS2-162?page=comments#action_12319922 ] Robert Burrell Donkin commented on AXIS2-162: - cool. applied. sorry for the delay. for some reason, JIRA can't post to me apache address :-/ [PATCH][document

Re: [Axis2] ignoring more directories

2005-08-24 Thread robert burrell donkin
committed. BTW is there anything special about the website build? (or is maven site:deploy fine...) - robert On 8/24/05, Davanum Srinivas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: +1 go for it :) On 8/24/05, robert burrell donkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i noticed that there are quite a few build

[Axis2] ignoring more directories

2005-08-24 Thread robert burrell donkin
i noticed that there are quite a few build directories which are not ignored by subversion. any objections to me tidying them up by editing the appropriate svn:ignore prop's? (dims has let me loose so i won't need to submit patches ;) - robert

[jira] Commented: (AXIS2-163) [PATCH] nagoya-issues

2005-08-24 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin (JIRA)
[ http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AXIS2-163?page=comments#action_12319924 ] Robert Burrell Donkin commented on AXIS2-163: - i've committed this change but don't think i have the karma required to close. [PATCH] nagoya-issues

Re: [Axis2] Better Java-XML mapping

2005-08-23 Thread robert burrell donkin
On 8/21/05, robert burrell donkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/18/05, Dennis Sosnoski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been having some off-list email exchanges on the issues of better tools for going between Java and XML. This is relevant to both start-from-Java approaches to web services

Re: [axis2] simple data binder

2005-08-21 Thread robert burrell donkin
On 8/17/05, Dennis Sosnoski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: robert burrell donkin wrote: how's JiBX's schema generation? Decent, within the limits of both JiBX bindings and schema. cool :) But schema is such a horrible, convoluted, mess that it's really difficult to try to establish

Re: [Axis2] Better Java-XML mapping

2005-08-21 Thread robert burrell donkin
On 8/19/05, Dennis Sosnoski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dan Diephouse wrote: Dennis Sosnoski wrote: While we have a number of tools for generating Java object models to (more or less) match a schema, most of these tools either cannot work with pre-existing Java classes or can only work

[Axis2] misplaced releases...?

2005-08-18 Thread robert burrell donkin
i've noticed a few little issues whilst developing the download script. 1 the 0.91 war distribution is misplaced (needs to be in www.apache.org/dist so that it can be mirrored) and lacks signature and a checksum. 2 the 0.9 release is no longer present in www.apache.org/dist and so the links are

[axis2] release download page

2005-08-17 Thread robert burrell donkin
(as the folks on the pmc are probably aware) the current download page (http://ws.apache.org/axis2/releases.html) needs some attention. i've had a little think about this, taken a look at the page and have a plan. i'm happy to submit a patch and then give some explanations (why things are done

Re: [ANN] [Axis2] AXIS2-0.91 released

2005-08-16 Thread robert burrell donkin
if you need any help setting up the mirror scripts, i'd be very happy to lend a hand. i plan to document how to create the download script (for infrastructure) soon so this would fit in nicely. - robert On 8/16/05, Eran Chinthaka [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can download the release

Re: [axis2] simple data binder

2005-08-13 Thread robert burrell donkin
On 8/12/05, Venkat Reddy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/11/05, Dan Diephouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Personally, I like to be able to change and extend my schemas more than once every year or two. Creating a seperate set of DTOs each time poses a lot of maintenance costs. As does simply

Re: [Axis2][jaxws] Up to date API ?

2005-08-12 Thread robert burrell donkin
On 8/11/05, Venkat Reddy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/11/05, Guillaume Sauthier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Venkat Reddy wrote: Yep. We are looking at it. We haven't gone too far with implementation, and we have other things to worry about - JAXB extension for Axis2, for instance.

Re: [axis2] simple data binder

2005-08-12 Thread robert burrell donkin
On 8/11/05, Dennis Sosnoski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: robert burrell donkin wrote: On 8/10/05, Dennis Sosnoski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip I think JiBX is one of the nicest start-from-Java frameworks around, though it's also being extended to better support start-from-schema

Re: [axis2] simple data binder

2005-08-11 Thread robert burrell donkin
On 8/10/05, Dennis Sosnoski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I definitely agree that start-from-Java can be very useful, Robert. I'm planning to work on adding support for my JiBX data binding framework (http://www.jibx.org) to Axis2, starting after the next release. would that be the next Axis2

Re: [axis2] simple data binder

2005-08-10 Thread robert burrell donkin
On 8/10/05, Glen Daniels [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all! Sorry I'm a little late to this discussion... not late at all: still at the idea stage. Sanjiva Weerawarana wrote: On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 20:51 +0100, robert burrell donkin wrote: i've been wonder whether it might not be easier

Re: [axis2] simple data binder

2005-08-10 Thread robert burrell donkin
On 8/10/05, Sanjiva Weerawarana [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Actually, even if Glen's doing an old style data binder, I would say that does not in any way preclude doing a dynamic start-from-java binder in any way. If yours comes out better we can figure out how to make it be default.

Re: [axis2] simple data binder

2005-08-09 Thread robert burrell donkin
On 8/9/05, Ajith Ranabahu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Robert, hi ajith We actually talked about it that day also. Glen seems to be doing some work on a simple data binding framework but I am not really sure how it will turn out. I mean I am not sure whether it's based on Axis1 or so. i've

[axis2] simple data binder

2005-08-08 Thread robert burrell donkin
IIRC at ApacheCon (good talk BTW Ajith) a question were raised (from the audience) about compatibility with the older axis 1 databinding. i believe that the reply was that the plan would be to create a new simple binding framework. i was wondering whether this has already been created and if the

RE: [Axis2] Google SoC - Test Suggestions

2005-07-23 Thread robert burrell donkin
hi mark i don't want to take anything away from eran's comments but have something i'd like to add. if you do want some background on axis2, then there is documentation on axis in the repository. maven site:generate will build the documentation into target/doc. if you have any problems or