Re: Publishing Normative Java artifacts

[Mary McRae <mary.mcrae@oasis-open.org>]

Hi David,

  Yes, that looks fine. Are the C/C++ and Java the only two TCs affected by this? If there are others, I can write this up and pass it along, or you should feel free to share :)
 
Mary 



On Feb 26, 2010, at 11:19 AM, David Booz wrote:

> 
> Hi Mary,
> 
> Here's the proposal I mentioned in the other email thread.  Some
> explanation is necessary, which I've tried to provide.  Speaking in person
> might be easier, so I'm happy to do it if necessary.
> 
> I've attached the first two pages of our CAA spec to illustrate, with
> change marks that embody our proposal. Please ignore the line numbers, they
> are not part of the proposal.
> 
> The SCA-J TC has voted a new CD04 (which I have not sent to you yet), and
> as part of that vote the SCA-J TC would also like to publish 4 additional
> items:
> 1) A zip archive of the Java APIs. This is Java source code and is
> considered normative.  I've added a new section called "Java Artifacts"
> after "Declared XML Namespace(s)" which has a URI to this proposed new zip
> file.
> 2) A jar archive of compiled Java code. Developers and implementers of the
> spec would find this very handy. It is non-normative, so I added a URI for
> it to the "Related Work" section.
> 3) A zip archive of the Javadoc for the Java APIs.  This is something that
> developers and implementers of the spec would find very handy. It is a set
> of HTML files that can be downloaded and exploded by developers and spec
> implementers to use as reference material when writing Java code that uses
> the APIs.  The reason for downloading the zip is so that the material is
> available when not connected to the internet. This zip is non-normative so
> I've added a URI for it to the "Related Work" section.
> 4) An exploded (or online) version of the Javadoc for the API.  Again, this
> is useful to developers and spec implementers, but would be hosted online
> by OASIS. This material is non-normative so I've added a URI for it in the
> "Related Work" section.
> 
> (See attached file: sca-javacaa-1.1-spec-cd04_frontonly.doc)
> 
> The above is all in addition to the Word, HTML, PDF of the spec itself, the
> XML schema files for the spec, and updates to the namespace RDDL that
> points to all of this stuff.
> 
> thanks
> 
> Dave Booz
> STSM, BPM and SCA Architecture
> Co-Chair OASIS SCA-Policy TC and SCA-J TC
> "Distributed objects first, then world hunger"
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