Proposal for WS-Mobile - A Web services subproject to implement JSR 172
12 December 2003, Vairamuthu Thayapavan (vtpavan@opensource.lk)
(0) rationale
WS-Mobile will be an open source implementation which is based on Axis, which will provide accessing the web services support to J2ME.WS-Mobile is a web services subproject to implement JSR 172. It will deliver two new features to the J2ME plat form.
1) Accessing SOAP based remote web services from J2ME platform.
2) Giving xml parsing support to J2ME platform.
(1) scope of the subproject
The purpose of this subproject is to create and maintain an implementation of the JSR-172 "J2ME Web Services" Specification (see http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=172).
(2) identify the initial source from which the subproject is to be populated
Ias also has a prototype of parts of JSR 172 implemented. We will start with that codebase and refine it to completely implement JSR 172.
(3) identify the Web services resources to be created
(3.1) mailing list(s)
ws-mobile-dev
ws-mobile-user
(3.2) CVS repositories
ws-mobile
(3.3) Bugzilla
(4) identify the initial set of committers
Dilantha Fernando (dilantha@hsenid.lk)
Ias (iasandcb@tmax.co.kr)
Jeyakumaran Chandrasegaram (jkumaran@opensource.lk)
Kanchana Welagedara (kanchana@opensource.lk)
Nuwan Gurusinghe (nuwan@opensource.lk, nuwan@beyondm.net)
Thushantha Ravipriya De Alwis (ravi@opensource.lk,thushantha@beyondm.net)
Tharanga Elvitigala (telvitigala@sri.crossvue.com)
Vairamuthu Thayapavan (vtpavan@opensource.lk)
Note that Ias, Jeykumaran, Nuwan and Vairamuthu are already Apache committers.
(5) identify apache sponsoring individual
Davanum Srinivas (dims@yahoo.com)