RE: Apache/ebXML

[Nicholas Kassem <Nick.Kassem@eng.sun.com>]

Krishna,

Just as an FYI. During the San Jose ebXML conference (long time ago) I did 
an informal poll of the participants to measure the level of interest in an 
Apache implementation. The response was very mixed. I know that Sun would 
be happy to contribute to such an effort but it would need to be done 
through a broad-based collaborative effort. Having Sun as the only 
contributor to Apache sends the wrong message about what Apache.org is all 
about. I don't have a good sense of how many would be interested in 
*actively* working on an implementation - do you have any data to gauge the 
level of interest in this ? Krishna, perhaps we could start an e-mail 
sub-group and see what folks are willing to step up to ?

Regards,
Nick

At 09:24 AM 11/27/2000 -0800, Krishna Sankar wrote:
>Thanks. I will follow it up.
>
>cheers
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Gregory,Brian [mailto:BGregory@eBuilt.com]
>Sent: Monday, November 27, 2000 7:43 AM
>To: 'Krishna Sankar'; dick@8760.com; Ebxml
>Subject: RE: Apache/ebXML
>
>
>   I have forwarded your question to Roy Fielding who is currently Chairman
>of the Apache Foundation and the Chief Scientist here at EBuilt.
>
>You can contact him at
>
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>                  (fielding@apache.org)  <http://www.apache.org/>
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Krishna Sankar [mailto:ksankar@cisco.com]
>Sent: Saturday, November 25, 2000 10:30 AM
>To: dick@8760.com; Ebxml
>Subject: Apache/ebXML
>
>
>Dick,
>
>         Good idea. I have sent a few e-mails to the Apache folks to explore
>this
>possibility. Haven't yet received any reply. If anybody in this list have
>any Apache contacts, pl let me know.
>
>         cheers
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Dick Brooks [mailto:dick@8760.com]
>Sent: Saturday, November 25, 2000 6:00 AM
>To: Ebxml
>Subject: FW: [SOAP] binary data over SOAP (was: Re: Re: [SOAP] Building
>a large SOAP server)
>
>
>Is anyone within ebXML currently working with the Apache Software Foundation
>to include ebXML functionality as part of the Apache project? I think it
>would be wise to investigate a relationship with the group, other groups
>have done so, reference the following statement from the attached message:
>
>"Support for SOAP Attachments will be available in Apache SOAP very soon!"
>
>FYI: Apache is the most widely deployed web server software on the Internet
>according to http://www.netcraft.com/Survey/. We use the Apache software at
>8760, it's very high quality open source software.
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: SOAP [mailto:SOAP@DISCUSS.DEVELOP.COM]On Behalf Of Sanjiva
> > Weerawarana
> > Sent: Saturday, November 25, 2000 5:03 AM
> > To: SOAP@DISCUSS.DEVELOP.COM
> > Subject: [SOAP] binary data over SOAP (was: Re: Re: [SOAP] Building a
> > large SOAP server)
> >
> >
> > >I know you are doing advertisment :) But are you able to provide specific
> > >info as to how to transfer binary data between client and server using
> > >SOAP?
> > >Is bin.base64 the data type to use?
> >
> > There's also the SOAP Attachments stuff .. which allows one to use
> > a MIME envelope as the outer envelope and send attachments as MIME
> > attachments. IMO that's the right approach for sending binary data
> > in SOAP as it allows the transport level to decide on the appropriate
> > transfer encoding (which could in fact be base64).
> >
> > Support for SOAP Attachments will be available in Apache SOAP very soon!
> >
> > Bye,
> >
> > Sanjiva.
> >
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