[wsas-java-dev] Axis1 Deployer for Axis2

[Sanjiva Weerawarana]

Have we made progress on this? We need to get this done for WSAS 2.0 which 
is coming up *now*!

Thanks ..

Sanjiva.

Glen Daniels wrote:
> Hi Sanjiva:
> 
> Sanjiva Weerawarana wrote:
>> Glen Daniels wrote:
>>> Putting it into WSAS would be OK.  The thing about deploying Axis1 
>>> services is that it's often not as simple a packaging model as Axis2 
>>> - in particular, there's no archive management or classpath 
>>> isolation, so in A1, you need to set up the service classes yourself 
>>> and make sure they're somehow on the classpath.
>>
>> Can't we make that work nicely? That is, it seems to me we should be 
>> able to allow a user to jar up all the classes of the Axis2 service, 
> 
> s/Axis2/Axis1/?
> 
>> upload any dependent jars and then bundle all that into a classpath 
>> that is visible to the A1 deployer and let it go. That way we can get 
>> near the convenience of Axis2.
> 
> Yup.  As long as the classpath is set up nicely for the A1 deployer, 
> that means it's also set up for the (A1) AxisEngine.
> 
>>> When's the projected WSAS 2.0 date?  It shouldn't take that long to 
>>> clean up the fault stuff, maybe a few days work pulling together 
>>> tests and building bridges.
>>
>> Let's get the code + the easy deployment UI integrated to WSAS 2.0!
> 
> See other thread - I think the deployer itself feels more appropriate in 
> commons, so that people can use it w/o WSAS.  Then WSAS makes it better 
> with deployment/tooling help, etc.  Haven't heard anything else 
> recently; if people are OK with that, I'll check it in and we can start 
> working on UI!
> 
> --Glen
> 
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