NEW ISSUE: Package Name Changes

Title: NEW ISSUE: Package Name Changes

RAISER: Sanjay Patil

TARGET: Java Common Annotations and APIs Specification

DESCRIPTION:

The Java Common Annotations and APIs Specification uses the 'org.osoa.sca' package name for the API and 'org.osoa.sca.annotations' package name for the annotations. There exist a good number of commercial and open source software implementations of SCA that use the current package names. It will be painful for these implementations to maintain backward compatibility if the package names in the final version of the specifications are going to be  different from the current package names.

It is not clear whether the OASIS SCA-J TC would bless use of the current package names in the final versions of the specifications or not.

PROPOSAL:

Continue to use the current package names (org.osoa.sca, org.osoa.sca.annotations) in the final specifications.