JBossWS in 3.2.x?

[mikefinn]

Simple question: Has there been or will there be a plan to backport WS to the 3.2 branch? Apologies if this has been discussed, but didn't find the answer in the usual places.

TIA,
Mike

[anil.saldhana]

Mike, thanks for the Q. After the JBoss4.0 release this month, there will be no point in backporting JBossWS into 3.2 branch. 4.0 will be a J2EE1.4 compliant App Server. All your 3.2 apps should run without modifications on the 4.0 server.

JBossWS is a J2EE1.4 compliant web services subsystem.

[mikefinn]

Thanks for the answer. Was hoping to get WS in 3.2, because we have a dozen or so apps in prod on a 3.2.2 cluster, incl. WebServices (currently on jboss-net). Don't have time for the logistics of a 4.0 upgrade right now, so I was looking for a way to to WS4EE before then.

Mike

[thomas.diesler]

Mike,

Anil is right, there will be no backporting of the JBossWS subsystem to the jboss-3.2 brach. Main reason is that ws4ee relies on j2ee-1.4 features which are and will not be supported in jboss-3.2.x.

[daborg]

> All your 3.2 apps should run without modifications on the 4.0 server.

Maybe they should, but they absolutely do not.

[thomas.diesler]

Do you have WS related porting issues to JBoss.NET in jboss-4.0? Going from JBoss.NET to JBossWS is probably the last step in your migration efford.