On Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 01:52:02PM -0400, Sakala, Adinarayana wrote: > Below is a project proposal for incubation consideration.
Well-written proposal. Merging two codebases is hard though! What is it? ----------- > Project CeltiXfire is a SOA infrastructure framework focused on > implementation of JCP and web service > standards while also providing extensibility for legacy integration. It is a > merge of two matured open source > projects and communities, ObjectWeb Celtix (http://celtix.objectweb.org) and > Codehaus Xfire > (http://xfire.codehaus.org). It will implement the JAX-WS, JAX-WSA, and > JSR-181 standards. Core to this is > support for web service standards like SOAP 1.1, SOAP 1.2, WS-I BasicProfile, > WS-Security, WS-Addressing, > WS-RM, and WS-Policy. This project will support several programming models > like JAX-WS, JBI (ServiceMix), SCA > (Tuscany), and CORBA services (Yoko). We will leverage open source > components wherever possible, for example > we intend to use WSS4J for ws-security from the Apache Web Services project. > One goal of this project is to > provide public APIs that match the JSR standards. Furthermore, the scope of > this project is to provide SOA > infrastructure for both modern web services and for legacy systems. The seed > code has been designed to provide > a pluggable architecture to support both XML and non-XML type bindings in > combination with any type of > transport. For example, Celtix is in the process of being extended to provide > a CORBA binding as part of the > Apache Yoko project (in incubation). Additional examples of non-XML bindings > that could be supported in the > future include fixed length record bindings, which are critical to > integrating mainframe systems into a SOA. > The current infrastructure code is designed for flexible deployment in a > variety of containers including JBI, > J2EE, SCA and servlet containers. I have absolutely no idea what the above means, but I've given up trying to make sense of the "java enterprise" space some time ago so that's to be expected. Nevertheless, do you think there's any chance someone could give a technical summary of the above that the people who haven't a clue what most of the used acronyms mean can also understand? Trying myself, I've always understood XFire to be a direct alternative for Axis1 (I have yet to get to grips with Axis2, but I assume some of the same is true there), aka a "SOAP stack". Is that somewhat true? And then, is Celtix such a beastie as well? Can the stuff above be summarized as "flexible, standards-compliant, robust, (insert more popular adjectives here), SOAP stack server framework architecture (insert more popular nouns here)"? (and "SOAP" is a fluffy optionally-XML-heavy way to have pieces of software talk to each other over optionally-the web, and "stack" means that a rather big tower of software is needed to do that) > * Harmony: Harmony is implementing Java 5.0 and requires support for many of > the JSR that CeltiXfire will provide. ? The one JSR mentioned above is 181 which I believe is part of Java EE and not the JDK, right? Which JSRs are you referencing? Who? ---- > The authors of the existing code have extensive experience with open > source already. The initial list of committers includes 9 Apache Committers. > They are involved in: > * Apache Continuum > * Apache Geronimo > * Apache ServiceMix > * Apache Tuscany > * Apache Yoko and others :). There's also a lot of other people with names I don't recognize at all, and some I can't seem to find at all from a quick scan of the celtix and xfire dev lists. I think some more of an idea of who these people are and what their existing involvement is would be nice. Perhaps the people on the initial committer list could add details (like affiliation and which codebases they work on now) to the wiki page? What is needed? --------------- > == ASF Resources to be Created == ... > * Official Build Systems What does this mean? > == Sponsor == > We kindly request the Incubator PMC to accept sponsorship for this proposal. Though some clarifications (see above) would be nice, I see no particular reason to withold a +1 beyond that (but oh, how I would sometimes *love* to be able to decide technical direction for the ASF :P ). LSD --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
