Proposal for Releasing Apache Sandesha

[Jaliya Ekanayake <ja...@opensource.lk>]

Hi All,
 
We would like to propose a release for Apache Sandesha WS-ReliableMessaging
implementation.
 
Motivation:
 
It has been quite some time since we have updated Sandesha to reflect the
latest changes in the WS-ReliableMessaging specification (February 2005).
Last few weeks we have tested Apache Sandesha with other similar
implementations, like IBM, Microsoft and Systinet. We were able to pass all
the available interop tests with the above implementations. Now (After
applying the changes that we identified during the interop tests) we would
like to propose a release for Sandesha.
 
Features:
 
Following features are available in the release of Sandesha, 
 
(1)   Implementation of WS-ReliableMessaging specification (February 2005).
On top of Axis 1.x
(2)   INORDER delivery assurance.
(3)   Support for synchronous and asynchronous reliable exchange of
messages.
(4)   A Client API that will make it easy for users to work simultaneously
with different endpoints and different message sequences.
(5)   Updated documentation.
(6)   Support for WS-Policy integration.
 
 
Since Axis 1.2 was released recently, we believe that it is a good time for
a stable version of Sandesha as well. 
 
 
Release Plan:
 
We would like to release a beta version as soon as possible.
If there are no complaints, we would like to release Sandesha-1.0 within a
week after the beta release.
 
I'm +1 for doing the release with the above features.
 
 
Thanks,
 
Jaliya