Ok, understood.
Out of interest, I dropped the new code (tubes.jar and modified
jaxws-rt.jar from HEAD) into WSIT and it was happy to build and run its
tests which is a good sign.
I guess it leaves time to sort out the tubes project to make it presentable.
Pete
Kohsuke Kawaguchi wrote:
> Peter Hendry wrote:
>> I was wondering how we move forward with this from here. Obviously it
>> is to nobodys benefit to have a separate parallel tubes impl in
>> jax-ws RI so it would be best if we could get it using the new tubes
>> package. Obviously there is the requirement for no externally visible
>> changes to the RI pipe package so the changes I sent need to be
>> tested against projects already using tubes.
>
> Yes.
>
>> I see WSIT uses them but I can't see any reference to them in
>> Glassfish (on HEAD anyway). Are there other projects you know of
>> using them that we could test do not break?
>
> There are some uses inside Glassfish, as well as JBI folks. So this
> needs coordination, and we can't test everything by ourselves.
>
> We also need to do it at the right moment, too. Glassfish is getting
> close to a release, and so it's fairly unlikely that they'll say yes
> to this change any time soon.
>
> So for a while, we'll have to leave the RI as it is.
>
>> I'll have a look at the weekend at what tests are in the RI for tubes
>> with a view to copying them over to the tubes project. The RI will
>> likely need to keep these to test its own extension so any breaks can
>> be seen if the switch is made.
>>
>> Let me know what I can do to help push this forward.
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