All-- There has been some confusion publicly and privately about the JSR 181 TCK issues and the WSM part of Beehive.
The goals of WSM are to implement the JSR 181 specification and to provide a generic annotation processor for the 181 annotations. In addition, there is a layer that implements JSR 181 features for the Axis web service stack. The JSR 181 specification is being developed under the JCP 2.6 process and has reached the "Final Approval Ballot" stage. But, this is not the *final* release of the specification. This means that the spec is not completely finished and that the RI and TCK are not available. Both Craig and Geir have confirmed that in order to ship a "final" version of Beehive that claims to implement JSR 181, we must pass the JSR 181 TCK. Currently, we are blocked on even starting this work because the TCK has not been released. I've exchanged some mail with Geir, and once the TCK is available, he will help us obtain it through Apache channels and we can start the process of passing the TCK. The TCK work will be done at Apache under NDA. The implication here is that Beehive (NetUI + Controls + WSM) can not go "final" as a whole until the TCK has been released and WSM has passed. The purpose of this milestone was to provide incremental progress toward a 1.0-final release of the stable NetUI and Controls parts of Beehive, Then, we'd do a subsequent Beehive release that has JSR 181 TCK compliance. So, it seems to me that the passing the TCK and doing a milestone release are orthogonal until we consider doing a release that doesn't include WSM. It would certainly be possible to release a version of Beehive that had only the NetUI + Controls bits and let the WSM part continue to bake until the TCK becomes available and is passed. WSM could then be included in a later release. Thoughts about this are welcome; honestly, I'd be fine with this approach. But, I do think that we should complete the current milestone release in order to get something new out there. :) Eddie --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
