> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marc.Hadley_at_Sun.COM [mailto:Marc.Hadley_at_Sun.COM]
> Sent: 2007?9?17? 23:45
> To: Liu, Jervis
> Cc: dev_at_jsr311.dev.java.net
> Subject: Re: Publish jsr311-api.jar into a public maven repository?
>
>
> On Sep 16, 2007, at 10:45 PM, Liu, Jervis wrote:
> >
> > We are interested in implementing JSR-311 in Apache CXF. I've been
> > playing with some prototype implementation codes for a few days on
> > my own svn branch, so far so good.
>
> That's great news, we'd welcome a second independent implementation
> or we'd be happy to combine efforts via Jersey (http://
> jersey.dev.java.net/) if that makes sense. Please bear in mind that
> the API is a moving target and changes are inevitable, more
> on how we
> intend to manage this below.
>
> > However the biggest problem that preventing me and other CXF
> > developers from working on CXF JSR-311 implementation is
> the jsr311-
> > api.jar. No work related to JSR-311 implementation can be checked
> > in into CXF's main trunk until jsr311-api.jar is available
> > somewhere in a public maven repository. I wonder would it be
> > possible to start publishing jsr311-api.jar into a public maven
> > repository now so that everyone else who is also interested in
> > implementing JSR-311 can move forward? Thanks.
> >
> We're actually already working on this as part of the process of
> maven-enabling Jersey. We'll hopefully have something working soon
> and I'll notify this list when the jars are published. The approach
> we are planning to take is to publish a new jar in a maven
> repository
> for each stable release of the API, e.g. 0.2, 0.3 etc rather than
> publish a new version of the jar every time we make a change to the
> API. That way implementations can target a stable version of the API
> and move between versions in coarse steps rather than facing
> death by
> a thousand changes. Hopefully this approach will work for Apache CXF
> too ?
Sounds good, thanks!
>
> Thanks,
> Marc.
>
> ---
> Marc Hadley <marc.hadley at sun.com>
> CTO Office, Sun Microsystems.
>
>
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