org.apache.axis.ime.FeatureEnabled

[James M Snell <ja...@us.ibm.com>]

On the IRC chat today, Glen indicated some reservations about this 
interface as 1) it's not currently used,  2) Feature support is a bigger 
issue than just async and 3) the way feature enablement/disablement needs 
to work is an open question.

For a  ___short term___  solution, I recommend moving this and all Feature 
related classes into a package called org.apache.axis.features that will 
be filtered out of the main build using the same compileime mechanism I 
have set up for the IME packages.  (in fact, I'm considering renaming 
compileime to workinprogress in order to reuse it as a general mechanism 
to signal whether or not work in progress components such as IME should be 
compiled as part of the main build.  This allows us to work on the new 
items within the main branch without affecting existing code or 
distributions).  Anyway, over time, we'll evolve the new 
org.apache.axis.features package into the proper solution while allowing 
stuff like the IME to have something to work with in the short term.

Compaints? Praise? Questions?

- James Snell
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schema questions

[Chris Williamson <ch...@wolfram.com>]

I have heard rumblings of new schema functionality.  What exactly is this
new functionality?  Where can I go to read about it?  I am looking to
validate a SOAPEnvelope I build up.  Is this something I can do with this
new functionality?  Is this something I can do anyway.  I got stuck trying
to do this because I could not figure out how to read the schema from within
the WSDL.  I know Xerces validates schema, but how do you validate against
schema located in a WSDL?  Is this new functionality going to replace the
symbol table functionality currently available?  What features will this
provide beyond the symbol table?  Is there going to be a better api?
SchemaUtils provides some useful methods, but seems to be incomplete.   When
a type is defined, I want to be able to access its extension if it does
extend something.  Is the symbol table the best way to access type
information defined in the schema?

Any information about the present and future of schema (especially
validation and meta-data) would be very useful.

Thanks,

Chris