Thanks Matt.
It seems that no one objects. Is the next step to have the recipient
PMCs vote on receiving the code and developers?
Regards,
Alan
On Nov 30, 2007, at 9:54 AM, Matt Hogstrom wrote:
The members of project yoko have been considering the future of Yoko
as a project. There have been several milestones delivered and the
project is used by other ASF projects. The project is not as
active as other ASF projects and it makes sense to move the code
from Yoko to other projects. The Yoko team has the following
proposal for your consideration.
Proposed Code Donation from Project Yoko to Apache CXF and Apache
Geronimo
The Yoko community has been successful in delivering several
milestones of the ORB implementation while in the Apache Incubator.
These milestones are used by other Apache projects (namely Geronimo
and Harmony) to support their releases. The WebServices bindings
are dependent on CXF. The Yoko community has decided that the Yoko
project does not have quite the momentum to carry itself as an
independent project but has sufficient value for other projects for
them to consider receiving the code and committers for that code-
base as sub-projects. Since the code under consideration is used by
Apache Geronimo, Apache CXF and Apache Harmony the movement of the
code should continue to allow for independent releases so the code
can be easily shared with other dependent projects.
The proposed division is:
yoko-spec-corba - this is the org.omg interface classes.
rmi-spec - this is the javax.rmi spec implementation
core - This is the actual ORB implementation.
rmi-impl - This is the implementation of the RMIIIOP support.
These modules are also used by Harmony.
In addition to the code we propose that the following committers in
Apache Yoko be accepted as committers in Apache Geronimo given their
demonstration of delivering code, creating releases and functioning
as a community. Those noted with asterisks are already Geronimo
committers.
Continued involvement with the core:
Rick McGuire *
David Jencks *
Alan Cabrera *
Lars Kuhne
Alexey Petrenko
Darren Middleman
The remainder of the modules in Yoko are part of the webservices
support and are independent of the underlying ORB implementation.
api -- interface classes used for the web services support.
bindings -- code to implement the CORBA-Web services bindings.
tools -- tools for generation WSDL and IDL for the bindings
maven-plugin -- some maven plugins that can use the tools for
generating binding-related build artifacts. None of the maven-
plugin code is used by the ORB.
There is also a distribution directory with some sample
applications. One set of samples demonstrates using the core ORB,
the other set is for WebServices. We recommend that the
distribution directory should move to Apache CXF as the webservices
examples use the orb samples to bind them as web services. Since
Apache Geronimo's only use of CORBA is for exporting EJBs, these
samples are not particularly valuable for Geronimo.
The Yoko community did not have any committers that expressed an
interest in continuing work on these bindings. As such, only the
code would be moving to apache CXF.