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Next Java SCA Release Contents
This page outlines the features being planned for the next Java SCA release.
The next release is targted for mid May 2007. A focus will be on the stability and consumability for the runtime core functions
Working on
- tidy up runtime after all the recent rewrite/refactors
- Composite component wiring and promotion hierarchy (jsdelfino)
- Package/Class naming consistency across modules
- rename the core-spi package (Venkat)
- Package dependencies
- Setting data bindings on interfaces
- using the contribution service to remove the need of import.sdo (rfeng)
- Type scoping and contexts
- define a clear set of runtime and extension APIs which we can keep stable over future releases
- working out the invocation chain based on the new SPIs (rfeng)
- refactor extensions (Java, script, axis2, rmi etc) to use new SPIs
- logging stratergy and better error reporting
- in the assembly model (jsdelfino)
- in the contribution service (lresende)
- Tomcat and Jetty http
- which port to start an http connector
- work on a Domain concept (drops out of this releases)
- better integration with App Servers
- web app support including tomcat deep integration
- Java components
- script components (JavaScript/JRuby/Jython/...?)
- Axis2 Web service binding
- what samples?
- a web app sample (lresende)
- a script language sample
- das-service sample
- example Ant build script for sample (slaws)
- decide on distributions, create build scripts (ant, and...?)
- try out the distributions (slaws, and...?)
- Add text to the varrious readme type docs included in the distributions
- good documentation for all the above on the website
- Start of user guide - Haleh
- Extension developers guide (once we've sorted out the SPIs) - (ant, and...?)
- What else?
Already in the trunk and will be included in the release
What is new over M2 Release? Things that have been worked on already?
- Improved databinding
- Contribution Services
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