Mr. Shoemaker,
Please keep these packages bundled. There is a great value having these
tools work together.
Best regards to the JAXB team.
RB
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Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2003 15:56
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Subject: Re: Need to update JAXB version
Sorry that link should have been:
http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/community/chat/JavaLive/2003/jl0
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> Brian Franklin: I have to say I'm disappointed by that. The Java WSDP
> contains 10 different technology packages. It seems unfortunate to
> have to wait for all of them to be synchronized for release.
> Particularly since it might hamper increased growth and code
> improvement for early version technologies like JAXB, contrasted with
> more mature releases like JAXP.
>
> Ryan Shoemaker: I understand your concern, but we are working very
> hard to make sure that the Java WSDP releases are timely and contain
> incremental improvements in the component technologies. The Java WSDP
> certainly will be revved much faster than J2SE, for example. In the
> coming months and years, we will be revving all of our XML and Web
> Services technologies. Some of them will be built on JAXB, and JAXB at
> some point in the future may make use of others (mostly in the parser
> area). We felt it was important to package together the latest,
> greatest set of technologies that were tested together and worked
> together. For instance, we hope that in the future, JAX-RPC will be
> completely layered on JAXB. So we wanted to establish a pattern of
> releasing them together as a tested unit. We also realized that some
> people would not want all the technologies, so we tried to make it
> very clear how to separate out just the technologies you were
> interested in. This was a big change from the previous release of the
> Java WSDP.
Very sleepy,
--Ryan