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Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 09:59:17 +0000
From: "Paul Fremantle" <pzfreo@gmail.com>
To: axis-user@ws.apache.org
Subject: Re: [Axis2] Moving Axis2 code base into JDK 1.5
Cc: "axis-dev@ws.apache.org" <axis-dev@ws.apache.org>
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References: <47C4E3CD.9040006@opensource.lk> <47C502FF.8030401@sosnoski.com>

My concern is that I think there has been a lot of work done since the
last release and the JDK1.4 users will never get that benefit.

So - how about this for a plan.

Release 1.4 asap based on JDK 1.4.
Then do a 1.5 release *very soon after* based on JDK1.5.

That way even the names match :)

Axis2 1.4 can be the last major release targeted at JDK1.4.

As for 1.5, I think in fact it will need two releases - once we start
targeting 1.5 we probably need to do some 1.5 specific stuff like
generating code that takes advantage of generics.

Paul

On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 6:28 AM, Dennis Sosnoski <dms@sosnoski.com> wrote:
>  From my experiences working with companies moving to Axis2 I'd say
>  about half are still using JDK 1.4. If they can't count on that support
>  being maintained I think they're likely to reconsider adopting Axis2.
>  Just having an archived 1.3 version of Axis2 won't be enough to convince
>  them, unless they're already committed to moving to JDK 1.5 anyway.
>
>  It seems like bad timing to give up one of the major advantages of Axis2
>  over the Glassfish code and such. So -0 from me.
>
>   - Dennis
>
>  --
>  Dennis M. Sosnoski
>  SOA and Web Services in Java
>  Axis2 Training and Consulting
>  http://www.sosnoski.com - http://www.sosnoski.co.nz
>  Seattle, WA +1-425-939-0576 - Wellington, NZ +64-4-298-6117
>
>
>
>
>
>  Deepal Jayasinghe wrote:
>  > Hi all ,
>  >
>  > As you might remember few months back Glen asked the list about moving
>  > to JDK 1.5 and I think we got very positive feedback. So I thought of
>  > asking again and change the code to work with JDK 1.5 . The main
>  > reason behind sending this mail is due the dependency we have for
>  > annogen. As I can see that project is dead one and there is no
>  > development happening so I do not think it is a good idea to depend on
>  > such a project. In the meantime we have few issues with annogen as
>  > well ,first  inner class problem (I have locally fixed that both in
>  > Axis2 and Annogen will commit soon) , second is the final class
>  > problem. I request a release from annogen after the changes that Dims
>  > did , but we did not get any reply so far.
>  >
>  > We all know that we get better annotation support from JDK 1.5 so if
>  > we move to JDK 1.5 we can get rid of the annogen dependency and we can
>  > just use JDK for annotation processing.  Other problem is generic
>  > support , if we move to JDK 1.5 we can have generic support in our
>  > POJOs.  In addition to POJO we can get better concurrent support in
>  > JDK 1.5 as well.
>  >
>  > So if we move to JDK 1.5 we can get better support , and I do not
>  > think any advantage of staying in 1.4 . If some user want to use Axis2
>  > in JDK 1.4 they can happily use Axis2 1.3 , which is very stable
>  > version and working fine in 1.4 and 1.5.
>  >
>  > If any user or developers have any concern on moving to JDK 1.5 please
>  > come forward and reply to this mail that will be very helpful for all
>  > of us.
>  >
>  > Here is my +1 for moving to JDK 1.5 to and release Axis2 1.4 in JDK 1.5
>  >
>  > Thank you,
>  > Deepal
>  >
>  >
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