Yes, that's what I thought and I don't think Oracle would be alone in this.
I'm also not sure whether any OASIS policies on privacy of TC work would
prevent such relatively public displays of code.
Mark.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Simeon M Greene" <>
To: "John Fuller" <>; "Mark Little"
<>
Cc: <>;
<>; "malik saheb"
<>; <>
Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2003 4:39 PM
Subject: RE: [ws-caf-implement] WS-CAF Implementation Plan
> Unfortunately, policies here at Oracle will prevent me from loading source
> code up on sourceforge. Most likely I will have to keep my source code
> private until the legal department clears it for release. Usually that
> happens after the code has reached some point of stability (like after the
> demos are completed).
> If we follow what the WS-I Sample Application Implementation group does,
> each company would develop their own implementation in private, but
> following a specification and testing against established test cases. We
do
> however need a common repository for WSDL files, specs, test cases etc...
> Maybe we can use sourceforge/cvs for that.
>
> -Simeon
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Fuller [mailto:]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2003 7:38 AM
> To: Mark Little
> Cc: ;
> ; malik saheb;
>
> Subject: Re: [ws-caf-implement] WS-CAF Implementation Plan
>
>
> I guess as my suggestion goes, I was imagining someone like Malik could
> set up a sourceforge project
> (and sourceforge.net would be the host) sort of like I did at
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/easywsrm/
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/easyasap/
> and Jeffrey Ricker did at
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/axisasap/
> and grant developers administrative permissions.
>
> It's free, public, you can move whatever you want into the file
> releases if you have administrative rights, etc. So I could move in
> C++ for that package, others could move in their Java and we could also
> put our working documents out there. It does support CVS, but you
> don't need to use it.
>
> ***
>
> Another alternative I suppose would be a yahoo group like boost C++
> uses for its files at
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/boost/files/
> This would make the work public just to those in the group.
>
>
> On Dec 17, 2003, at 2:25 AM, Mark Little wrote:
>
> > It's worth considering, but who'd host it?
> >
> > Also, are we actually going to provide a single demo implementation (or
> > implementations depending on the coding language) or just a
> > model/definition
> > that each individual member can code against? There are pros and cons
> > of
> > both approaches.
>
>
>
