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Relase Plan Axis2 0.9

New release completes the most of the functionalities targeted by Axis2, the remaining functionalites are added as Jira issues. This Relase added

Data Binding
MTOM
Module Architecture
SOAP 1.2 support
WSA Submission Final
REST support

With most updates to the Archtecutre.

Source level TODOs for relase

Update the User guide for the Data binding
SWA Documents
Update REST documents
Updates the TCP documents
MTOM Documents

Axis2 0.9 feature list

SOAP 1.1/SOAP 1.2 support
WSDL 1.1
WSA Submission and Final
Module Architecture
Context Hierachy
Transports SMTP
Transport HTTP
Transport TCP
Raw XML Providers
Support for MTOM/MIME/SwA
Deployment
Client API modules
WSDL2Java
Java2WSDL
REST support
XML Beans based data binding implemntation

Steps for Axis2 0.9 Release

Create a Key Pair

If you do not have one create a key pair

# gpg --gen-key

the keys will be genrated in the ~/.gnupg

Export the Keys

gpg --armor --export hemapani@gmail.com > KEYS

update KEYS

cd ~/release1-4-alpha
cat KEYS >> /www/www.apache.org/dist/ws/axis2/KEYS

Cut the relase

tag the SVN

Create Distribution

Build Distribution Files

Take a new checkout and from the root direcotry

 # maven clean
 #maven dist-bin
 # maven dist-src

This will create axis2-0.9-bin.zip axis2-0.9-src.zip files

Create Checksums (more info http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/releases/release.html)

Create Checksums

openssl md5 < axis2-0.9-bin.zip > axis2-0.9-bin.zip.md5

do same to axis2-0.9-src.zip

Sign and verify the relases

        #cd target/dist/
        #gpg --armor --output axis2-0.9-bin.zip.asc --detach-sig axis2-0.9-bin.zip
        #gpg --verify axis2-0.9-bin.zip.asc axis2-0.9-bin.zip