Dear Incubator PMC, Since there has not been any objection. i am planning to do the infra related work ASAP.
thanks, dims On Mar 24, 2005 10:51 AM, John Kaputin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Please find below a plain text version of the incubator proposal for the > 'Woden' project. The PDF version is attached at the end of this email. > > ================================================= > > Woden Proposal > > Project Proposal > > March 2005. > > The Woden project is proposed as a subproject of the Apache Web Services > Project to develop a Java class library for reading, manipulating, creating > and writing WSDL documents, initially to support WSDL 2.0 but with the > longer term aim of supporting past, present and future versions of WSDL. > > There are two main deliverables: an API and an implementation. The Woden > API will consist of a set of Java interfaces. The WSDL 2.0-specific portion > of the Woden API will conform to the W3C WSDL 2.0 specification. The > implementation will be a high performance implementation directly usable in > other Apache projects such as Axis2. > > Members of the WSDL4J team, Apache Axis, Eclipse and W3C will collaborate > on this project. The Axis2 community have already put some effort into a > WSDL 2.0 Architecture. The Eclipse Web Tools project has experience in > developing WSDL validators and one of its members is also a member of the > W3C WSDL 2.0 Working Group. > > Potential applications: > - Axis2, build time emitters and runtime parsing > - Eclipse tools, WSDL editors > - vendor products > - user applications > > About the name "Woden" : > - Woden is a mnemonic for Web service Description (i.e. WoDen). > - Woden is a Norse god and naming the project after a god is in keeping > with other WS-Apache project names like Apollo, Hermes and Muse. > - Woden invented a form of writing called Runes (i.e. a form of > Description). > - The symbol CEN in Runes looks like '<', a left angle bracket, which may > suggest we can trace the origins of XML back to Woden! > > Rationale > > There are current requirements for a WSDL 2.0 processor (e.g. Axis2, > Eclipse tools, the WSDL4J community). This demand is expected to increase > when the W3C issues a Recommendation for WSDL 2.0. > > The W3C WSDL 2.0 specification is currently at the 'Call for > Implementations' stage, which expects two independent implementations > before progressing to the implementation review stage and then on to a W3C > Recommendation. A WSDL 2.0 Java implementation from Apache in response to > this call could help verify the quality of the specification and improve > its implementation experience. > > Previous WSDL processors have been version specific, such as WSDL4J which > is tightly bound to WSDL 1.1. In the longer term the Woden project could > take the experience gained developing previous WSDL processors and deliver > a WSDL processing 'framework' that could accommodate future WSDL > specifications without the need to completely rewrite the processor. > > We anticipate that implementations of the Woden API will also be developed > by other projects for specific applications (e.g. the Eclipse Web Tools > project may develop an EMF based implementation to support WSDL 2.0 > editors, as it has done with JWSDL for WSDL 1.1). A common API will be a > good candidate for future standardization on a WSDL processing API. > > Scope > > In the short term, the scope of the Woden project is: > - A WSDL 2.0 API that will significantly cover the W3C WSDL 2.0 > specification, including the WSDL 2.0 Component Model, Soap bindings and > message exchange patterns and XSD schema typing. > - A high performance implementation of the API with read-write capability, > but optimized for run time applications rather than build time tooling . > - Fast, efficient XML parsing (e.g. StAX-based). > - A validator component that will provide optional WSDL validation, both > schema validation and semantic validation. > - An Ant task for command line usage based on Ant XMLValidate . > - Support usability and flexibility across different usage scenarios > through the handling of behaviour such as I/O, error reporting, progress > monitoring, memory efficiency and thread safety. > > Longer term, Woden's scope will include: > - Full support for remaining parts of the W3C WSDL 2.0 specification, such > as other protocol and type extensions. > - A Woden framework based on an extendable architecture that will allow for > known or future versions of WSDL to be plugged in, rather than hard coded > in the core of the WSDL processor (e.g. plugging in WSDL 1.1 support). > - A pluggable choice of XML parsing and object representation to support > particular usage scenarios (e.g. a StAX-based, DOM-free XML model for a > runtime application versus a DOM-based model for build time tooling). > > Initial Source > > IBM will donate the WSDL4J source code. Although WSDL4J is the reference > implementation of JSR110 (Java APIs for WSDL), Woden will not be an > implementation of JSR110. WSDL4J is specific to WSDL 1.1 but some of the > code and the intellectual property may be reused to develop a WSDL 2.0 > processor. > > Resources to be created > > Mailing Lists: > woden-dev > woden-user > > SVN Repository: > ws-woden > > Issue Tracking: > JIRA > > Apache Sponsor > > The Champion of the Woden incubator project is Davanum Srinivas > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). > > The Sponsor of Woden is the Apache Web Services PMC. > > Initial Committers > > Chathura Herath ([EMAIL PROTECTED], WS-Apache Axis) > Jeremy Hughes ([EMAIL PROTECTED], WSDL4J) > John Kaputin ([EMAIL PROTECTED], WSDL4J) > Lawrence Mandel ([EMAIL PROTECTED], Eclipse Web Tools (WTP) / Eclipse Web > Service Validation Tools (WSVT) ) > Arthur Ryman ([EMAIL PROTECTED], Eclipse Web Tools (WTP) / W3C WSDL > 2.0 Working Group) > > Incubator Mentors: > Paul Fremantle ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > Sanjiva Weerawarana ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > Relevant links: > > Eclipse Web Service Validation Tools (WSVT) - http://www.eclipse.org/wsvt > Eclipse Web Tools (WTP) - http://www.eclipse.org/webtools > W3C WSDL 2.0 Working Group - http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/desc/ > WSDL4J - http://sourceforge.net/projects/wsdl4j/ > > ================================================= > > (See attached file: Woden Proposal.pdf) > > > John Kaputin > Web Services Development > Hursley Laboratory > IBM UK Ltd, MP211, Hursley Park, Winchester, SO21 2JN, UK. > email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Tel: +44 (0)1962 817363 (internal 7-247363). Fax: +44 (0)1962 842327 > -- Davanum Srinivas - http://webservices.apache.org/~dims/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
