I don't think anybody objects to bundling, or having these techs
interoperate. I think what the community is reacting negatively to is the
fact that the techs are not available un-bundled as well.
-Brandon
Thought River South
----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Bagge" <asdzxc_at_comcast.net>
To: <JAXB-INTEREST_at_JAVA.SUN.COM>
Sent: Friday, June 20, 2003 1:07 PM
Subject: Re: Need to update JAXB version
> Mr. Shoemaker,
>
> Please keep these packages bundled. There is a great value having these
> tools work together.
>
> Best regards to the JAXB team.
>
> RB
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Discussion list for the Java Architecture for XML Binding
> [mailto:JAXB-INTEREST_at_JAVA.SUN.COM] On Behalf Of Ryan Shoemaker -
> JavaSoft East
> Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2003 15:56
> To: JAXB-INTEREST_at_JAVA.SUN.COM
> Subject: Re: Need to update JAXB version
>
>
> Sorry that link should have been:
>
> http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/community/chat/JavaLive/2003/jl0
> 422.html
>
> Here's the relevent content:
>
> > 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
>