Re: pruning projects @ ws

[Aleksander Slominski <as...@cs.indiana.edu>]

Anthony Elder wrote:

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> Apache Tuscany has some similar capabilities to WSIF. Maybe we should 
> be encouraging new people to try that out, and document some sort of 
> migration path for existing WSIF users. 

is Tuscany really a superset of WSIF? when i looked on it it had plenty 
of capabilities (component based assembly, covers service side and 
client side, extensive use of metadata/metamodel, etc.) and seems(?) to 
be several orders of magnitude more complicated than WSIF (scope of 
project, underlying requirement for SDO2, etc.) and aimed for different 
usage (for example it was not clear to me if you can add custom WSDL 
protocol binding providers such as in WSIF.)

> It seems a bit unfair to new users not to warn them that WSIF has 
> likely passed its sell-by date.

will Tuscany implement WSIF APIs or have something similiar already? can 
just WSIF-like capability be taken out of Tuscany and used in separation 
from other parts?

thanks,

alek

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> +1 to continuing keeping WSIF while there is interest from users and some
> manpower available to maintain it.
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> There still isn't anything else like WSIF available in the Apache WS
> portfolio, so I'd like to see it staying around.
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> Nirmal.
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> Davanum Srinivas wrote:
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> >These are my thoughts...what do you all think? We are spreading our
> >efforts too thin and we need to seriously think about down-sizing a
> >bit and focusing our efforts. Feel free to start a separate thread for
> >a specific project(s) that you are interested in keeping alive.
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> >WSIF      : Last legs? Time to pull the plug?
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> WSIF is currently in maintenance mode (fixing bugs etc.) and its future
> depends on users interests -there were several inquiries and ideas what
> to do but they did not go far (adding support for WSDL2 using Wooden and
> AXIS2 is probably the most probable to happen).
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> if all goes well i will put a new (maintenance) release and update
> website (after i re-forest my mind) but ultimately WSIF future really
> depends on its users and developers - at least for now as long as there
> is an interest i would like to see to having WSIF actively maintained.
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> thanks,
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> alek
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