[Fwd: Apache CXF Integration with the Eclipse STP]

[Adrian Skehill <ad...@iona.com>]

Sent this yesterday but no sign of it on the alias so here goes again!

Cheers,
Adrian.

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Apache CXF Integration with the Eclipse STP
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 16:27:47 +0100
From: Adrian Skehill <ad...@iona.com>
To: cxf-dev@incubator.apache.org
CC: stp-dev@eclipse.org

Hi There,

As part of the ongoing work within the Eclipse SOA Tools Platform (STP)
project, we are planning on migrating our Service Creation component to
use CXF instead of Celtix 1.0. What we did for Celtix was to commit all
the required jars in order to run the code generation into the STP CVS
repository. The Eclipse Foundation has a very extensive legal process
that needs to be run over all third party committed components and
continuing in this way would take a huge amount of time and effort,
particularly if the jars that CXF depended on changed. Plus some jars
are not re-distributable (e.g. CDDL based libs) which gives us more
problems.

So, I would like to propose that instead of updating STP to include CXF
jars, CXF would create an eclipse plugin that the STP could use to
satisfy the dependencies. This plugin would be a very simple wrapper
type plugin, and it would only contain the required libs necessary to
use the CXF generators and any other components that would benefit from
tooling. This plugin would need to be made publicly available for
download and we then in STP would put a dependency to bring it in as
part of our build / test purposes.

This should be a fairly straightforward task to do, and we would be able
provide assistance in getting the build system modified to publish the
plugin. Anybody who would download the STP would also need to bring in
this plugin as we will not be able to ship it without approval from the
Eclipse legal department.

I'd love to hear back and get the ball moving on this so that then CXF
would be able to benefit from integrating with the STP and Eclipse
environments.

Any comments / thoughts / concerns?

Regards,
Adrian Skehill.

Principal Engineer,
IONA Technologies.

Re: [Fwd: Apache CXF Integration with the Eclipse STP]

[Adrian Skehill <ad...@iona.com>]

Thanks for this James,

I've created a jira issue [1] so we can thrash out the details on this 
there if required.

Cheers,
Adrian.

[1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CXF-187

James Mao wrote:
> Hi Adrian,
> 
> Sorry about late, the mail server down for days, so we can not reply 
> your mail soon.
> 
> I also think it's straightforward to generate a eclipse plugin to 
> include all the dependency jars.
> And we could use ant or maven to generate the plugin, and you can build 
> by your self, or we can build nightly, and upload to the public site.
> 
> Could you please fire a jira issue.
> 
> Thanks,
> James.
>> Sent this yesterday but no sign of it on the alias so here goes again!
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Adrian.
>>
>> -------- Original Message --------
>> Subject: Apache CXF Integration with the Eclipse STP
>> Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 16:27:47 +0100
>> From: Adrian Skehill <ad...@iona.com>
>> To: cxf-dev@incubator.apache.org
>> CC: stp-dev@eclipse.org
>>
>> Hi There,
>>
>> As part of the ongoing work within the Eclipse SOA Tools Platform (STP)
>> project, we are planning on migrating our Service Creation component to
>> use CXF instead of Celtix 1.0. What we did for Celtix was to commit all
>> the required jars in order to run the code generation into the STP CVS
>> repository. The Eclipse Foundation has a very extensive legal process
>> that needs to be run over all third party committed components and
>> continuing in this way would take a huge amount of time and effort,
>> particularly if the jars that CXF depended on changed. Plus some jars
>> are not re-distributable (e.g. CDDL based libs) which gives us more
>> problems.
>>
>> So, I would like to propose that instead of updating STP to include CXF
>> jars, CXF would create an eclipse plugin that the STP could use to
>> satisfy the dependencies. This plugin would be a very simple wrapper
>> type plugin, and it would only contain the required libs necessary to
>> use the CXF generators and any other components that would benefit from
>> tooling. This plugin would need to be made publicly available for
>> download and we then in STP would put a dependency to bring it in as
>> part of our build / test purposes.
>>
>> This should be a fairly straightforward task to do, and we would be able
>> provide assistance in getting the build system modified to publish the
>> plugin. Anybody who would download the STP would also need to bring in
>> this plugin as we will not be able to ship it without approval from the
>> Eclipse legal department.
>>
>> I'd love to hear back and get the ball moving on this so that then CXF
>> would be able to benefit from integrating with the STP and Eclipse
>> environments.
>>
>> Any comments / thoughts / concerns?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Adrian Skehill.
>>
>> Principal Engineer,
>> IONA Technologies.
>>
>>
> 

Re: [Fwd: Apache CXF Integration with the Eclipse STP]

[James Mao <ja...@iona.com>]

Hi Adrian,

Sorry about late, the mail server down for days, so we can not reply 
your mail soon.

I also think it's straightforward to generate a eclipse plugin to 
include all the dependency jars.
And we could use ant or maven to generate the plugin, and you can build 
by your self, or we can build nightly, and upload to the public site.

Could you please fire a jira issue.

Thanks,
James.
> Sent this yesterday but no sign of it on the alias so here goes again!
>
> Cheers,
> Adrian.
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Apache CXF Integration with the Eclipse STP
> Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 16:27:47 +0100
> From: Adrian Skehill <ad...@iona.com>
> To: cxf-dev@incubator.apache.org
> CC: stp-dev@eclipse.org
>
> Hi There,
>
> As part of the ongoing work within the Eclipse SOA Tools Platform (STP)
> project, we are planning on migrating our Service Creation component to
> use CXF instead of Celtix 1.0. What we did for Celtix was to commit all
> the required jars in order to run the code generation into the STP CVS
> repository. The Eclipse Foundation has a very extensive legal process
> that needs to be run over all third party committed components and
> continuing in this way would take a huge amount of time and effort,
> particularly if the jars that CXF depended on changed. Plus some jars
> are not re-distributable (e.g. CDDL based libs) which gives us more
> problems.
>
> So, I would like to propose that instead of updating STP to include CXF
> jars, CXF would create an eclipse plugin that the STP could use to
> satisfy the dependencies. This plugin would be a very simple wrapper
> type plugin, and it would only contain the required libs necessary to
> use the CXF generators and any other components that would benefit from
> tooling. This plugin would need to be made publicly available for
> download and we then in STP would put a dependency to bring it in as
> part of our build / test purposes.
>
> This should be a fairly straightforward task to do, and we would be able
> provide assistance in getting the build system modified to publish the
> plugin. Anybody who would download the STP would also need to bring in
> this plugin as we will not be able to ship it without approval from the
> Eclipse legal department.
>
> I'd love to hear back and get the ball moving on this so that then CXF
> would be able to benefit from integrating with the STP and Eclipse
> environments.
>
> Any comments / thoughts / concerns?
>
> Regards,
> Adrian Skehill.
>
> Principal Engineer,
> IONA Technologies.
>
>