Fwd: [WODEN] Future of Woden Axiom implementation ?

[Sagara Gunathunga <sa...@gmail.com>]

Woden and WS developers discussing about to drop Axiom based Woden
implementation from next release. This is basically due to no
indication from users about use of this implementation and maintenance
overhead.   We believe drop unused components and maintain/develop
what ever the useful components is a important step to keep Woden
project healthy.

We will continue to support Woden DOM based implantation and we would
like to know your thoughts on this ?

Thanks !


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Andreas Veithen <an...@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 3:06 AM
Subject: Re: [WODEN] Future of Woden Axiom implementation ?
To: dev@ws.apache.org


I think it makes sense to remove the Axiom support. There are two
reasons for that:

1. Axiom enables a couple of optimizations (deferred parsing,
pull-through and sourced elements) that don't exist in DOM. However, I
don't see how Woden (or code that uses Woden) would benefit from these
optimizations.

2. We have a DOM compatible Axiom implementation (although the level
of DOM compliance is currently not very high). Also, I think that at
some point in the future, the default Axiom implementation will
support DOM (with a decent level of compliance).

Andreas

On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 5:55 PM, Sagara Gunathunga
<sa...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Devs,
>
> I'm thinking about future of Axiom (OM) based implementation of Woden
> API for sometime, whether we should continue or drop support from next
> release ?
>
> AFAIK original objective of OM implementation is to support Axis2 but
> in fact Axis2 never used OM implementation instead Axis2 still use DOM
> based implementation. Also in my POV there is no such drawbacks with
> DOM implementation to move Axis2 to use OM implementation. At the
> moment there is no clear indication about users of OM implementation
> too.  In this situation it is kind of a overhead to maintain OM
> implementation further specially with small number of developers.  At
> the beginning Woden had plans for number of cool features such as
> supporting to both WSDL versions etc, but all original developers have
> been disappeared from the community few years ago hence it's seem OK
> to re-prioritize objectives based on current requirements and
> resources.
>
> This also important decision to reduce complexities among Woden
> artifacts, at the moment it's required  to have at least 3 JAR files
> to use Woden framework as woden-api, woden-impl-common  and
> woden-impl-dom/woden-impl-om. Dropping OM implementation allows  to
> merge these artifacts and deliver above 3 module as a single JAR file
> called woden.jar.  IMO this kind of single artifact deliverables are
> more natural for utility projects and easy to deploy on OGSI
> containers too.
>
> Personally I don't have energy to maintain both implementations, also
> without actual users  no point to maintain OM implementation further.
> Based on above facts I would like to suggest terminate OM support from
> next release and move forward the project with what ever the useful
> features.
>
> Any thoughts ?
>
>
> Thanks !
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> Sagara Gunathunga
>
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