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Proposal for JaxMe - A Web services Subproject

10 June 2003, Davanum Srinivas (dims@yahoo.com) and Jochen Wiedmann <joe@ispsoft.de>

(0) rationale

JaxMe is to provide a Java/XML binding framework for SAX2. It reads an XML schema and generates code for parsing and writing XML documents. Currently Apache Axis uses a custom data binding schema that supports JAX-RPC 1.0. In JAX-RPC 2.0 (still in planning stages at JCP - http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=224) there will be a tight integration between JAXB and JAX-RPC. So Axis needs an implementation of JAXB that can evolve to support later versions of JAXRPC. Besides, JAXB will be a part of J2SE 1.5 and possibly even J2EE 1.5: See http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=222, section 2.13.

One question that can be asked is "Why is this project under ws.apache.org and not under xml.apache.org"? The answer is that the main focus is to get JaxMe mature enough to support the needs of the Web services projects and then it can be decided where the project should live. This is exactly why the proposal targets WS-Commons as the starting point.

(1) scope of the subproject

The purpose of this subproject is to create and maintain an implementation of JAXB specification that can be used either stand-alone or as part of other web services projects.

(2) identify the initial source from which the subproject is to be populated

JaxMe2 (http://cvs.sf.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/*checkout*/jaxme/JaxMe2/docs/Design.html)

(3) identify the Web services resources to be created

(3.1) mailing list(s) jaxme-user

jaxme-dev

(3.2) CVS repositories

ws-jaxme

(3.3) Bugzilla

(4) identify the initial set of committers

Jochen Wiedmann <joe@ispsoft.de>

Davanum Srinivas (dims@yahoo.com)

Robert Burrell Donkin rdonkin at apache.org