What happened to JAX-WS 2.1 & JAX-B 2.1?
Update: In my dismay I was getting the JCP & W3C processes all mixed up - duh. It seems it was the W3C WSDL Binding specification that fell at the last hurdle, presumably causing the JAXB 2.1 and JAX-WS 2.1 specifications to be withdrawn.
Update2: Vivek Pandey’s Blog post seems to confirm the above. I’m all for blogging to get the word out to the masses but the JCP Expert Group(s) should update their official JSR pages too. Regardless, the fact that JAX-WS 2.1 JAXB 2.1 was finalized on a Candidate Recommendation W3C specification reflects poorly on the quality of specification that the JCP is producing.
Does anyone know what happened to JAX-B 2.1? JAX-WS 2.1 (JSR-224) was released a few weeks ago, but the JCP have since pulled the specification, reference implementation and TCK. The reason given is that the W3C WSDL Binding specifiication, referenced by the JAX-WS 2.1 JAXB 2.1 specification announced back in December, did not make it past the Candidate Recommendation stage and apparently needs to be replaced with an alternative specification.
Does anyone have any pointers on why this happened (and what the old JAX-WS 2.1 candidate might be replaced by or when)?
Update 3: Looks like WS-Addressing WSDL Binding is being replaced by WS-Addressing Metadata.
on 29 Mar 2007 at 12:24 am # Kohsuke
Nothing happened to JAXB 2.1. The spec and the RI are available as usual, and it has never referenced W3C WSDL Binding to begin with.
I think you are mixing up JAXB and JAX-WS.
on 29 Mar 2007 at 9:37 am # aehso
The JCP’s JAXB homepage (http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=222) still contains no reference to JAXB 2.1. I appreciate that the JAXB R.I. project page (https://jaxb.dev.java.net/) does but that isn’t the ‘home’ of the spec.
That said, I was indeed referencing JAXB incorrectly in my post, I have updated to correct.
on 31 Mar 2007 at 1:02 am # Kohsuke
In JCP terminology, “JAXB 2.1″ corresponds to the maintenance release 1 of JSR-222. So the “maintenance release” that started on Dec 14th 2006 is the JAXB 2.1 release.
JCP website is full of JCP jargons like this, so there’s little wonder people get confused about this. I’d like to think JAXB java.net page does a better job of using terms that people understand.
Hope this clears your confusion.