Noel, will ask the WS-PMC.
thanks, dims On 5/21/05, Noel J. Bergman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This looks alright, but I have some questions. First, why isn't the WS PMC > sponsoring this as WS-TSIK? > > There is a proposed "PGP" package being discussed in Jakarta Commons. Would > there be any overlap at lower levels (not at the WS layer) between them, > providing for some collaboration? > > > The intent with Apache TSIK is to create a web services project > > to implement standards as defined by W3C, OASIS, and others: > > > Rather than trying to implement 100% of a specific standard, > > we wanted to provide simplified APIs that would make sense > > in most use cases. However, what's implemented will always > > be to specification. > > So this only works if the standard permits a subset implementation? > > > The WS-FX project is an umbrella for several sub projects. The > > composability of WS standards means that a division into a > > subproject structure is reasonable. WS-FX's main emphasis, though > > not the only way of deployment, is by way of Axis filters. > > > We propose TSIK as a separate project, somewhat competitive to > > WS-FX, but focused more on a toolkit usage model. > > > There are a number of Java Community Process JSR's in various stages > > of development. These JSR APIs will probably end up in ASF projects, > > some sooner than later. > > So would the TSIK be implementing these capabilities and then be leveraged > by other API providing projects? Or is the primary issue here that: > > > The JSR APIs often strive to completely implement each specification. > > While this is sometimes valuable, few applications use more than the > > most common functions. Again, TSIK is designed to simplify security > > usage as much as possible. > > And therefore, the TSIK would not be the implementation, but would be a > simplified API on top of a fuller implementation? > > --- Noel > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- Davanum Srinivas - http://webservices.apache.org/~dims/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
