Re: VOTE: Move JAXB API to Geronimo

[Changshin Lee <ia...@gmail.com>]

+1 with my note that this movement is focused on JAXB 1.0 for now.

I have to admit that I've spent quite much time considering the  
proposal.

Happy new year,

Ias

On Dec 15, 2005, at 9:45 PM, Jochen Wiedmann wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have recently discovered, that Geronimo contains a collection of
> J2EE clean room implementations. IMO, it would be better, if we
> offered them to take the jaxmeapi sources and add them to their
> collection.
>
> I see the following disadvantages:
>
> - Being no Geronimo committers, we could no longer maintain the
> sources. But the API
>   is mandated to us by an external source (the JAXB SPEC) anyways,  
> to which the
>   Geronimo developers are bound as well. Besides, the API sources  
> have been
>   exceptionally stable with only very few and minor changes in the
> last two years.
> - Introduced dependency from an external jar file. (Possibly even  
> more, because
>   some classes from jaxmeapi are already present in other Geronimo jar
> files, for
>   example QName and XMLConstants. But this is the case for Java <=  
> 1.4 only.)
>   However, we'd dropped the dependency from an internal jar file.
>
> On the other hand, we had the following advantages:
>
> - Smaller project, faster builds
> - Better visibility for the jar file (a real lot of Apache projects
> are still using JAXB
>   jar files, even if the API were sufficient)
> - Some projects, which are dependent on JaxMe, are actually  
> dependent on the
>   jaxmeapi.jar only. They would no longer be dependent from us. In  
> other words,
>   we'd reduce the pressure of fixing Gump problems.
>
> What do you think?
>
> Dims    []
> Ias       []
> Jochen [+1]
> Nacho  []
> Robert  []
>
>
>
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Re: VOTE: Move JAXB API to Geronimo

[Jochen Wiedmann <jo...@gmail.com>]

Changshin Lee wrote:
> +1 with my note that this movement is focused on JAXB 1.0 for now.
> 
> I have to admit that I've spent quite much time considering the  proposal.

In the light of

     http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=113570200300003&r=1&w=2

it is best to defer the proposal anyways. On the other hand, this will 
possibly ease your mind.


Jochen

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