Changes to Apache WSIF

Please keep changes in reverse chronological order. Each release should have a separate list of changes. Add only significant changes such as changing API, modifying implementation behavior, major bug fixes (hyperlink to Bugzilla), new functionality. Do not give too detailed descriptions as they belong to CVS commit logs. Each major release should have its separate list of changes, name of CVS tag used: create <a name="WSIF_2_0"></a> so it is easy to hyperlink to changes for particular release

In future:

• change WSIFServiceFactory to look for alternative implementations before instantiating default factory

current estimate: January 2003 after completing list of tasks scheduled for this release.

• Updated FAQ.
• added DSL provider sample to demonstrate how WSIF can be used ot interact with many services each potentially implemented with different protocol (EJB, JMS, SOAP, ...).
• added JMS sample to demonstrate how WSIF can be used to interacts with software accessible through the JMS API.
• 12/20/02: built RC1 release (tagged as WSIF_2_0_RC1): new samples (multibinding, customfactory), misc. updates to documentation and samples
• built BETA1 release (tagged as WSIF_2_0_BETA1): improvements to documentation that is now split in smaller pieces that are better fitting into http://xml.apache.org/axis/wsif/ website
• added EJB sample with documentation and pre-packaged jar for deployment in JBoss 
• built ALPHA2 release (tagged as WSIF_2_0_ALPHA2)
• changed release packaging: there are now three different release builds:
  • src: only source file (no binaries) - essentially all that is needed to compile WSIF if you downloaded all required jar files
  • bin: only binaries: just download few jar files that can not be distributed and you are ready to run WSIF (no source code except for samples)
  • all = bin + src
• included samples to demonstrate invocation of SOAP service, local java and service with complex types and documentation for samples.
• documentation changes factored out readme.htm1 into smaller pieces that are put in doc/ (like cvs and requirements) updated doc/ with factored out info about cvs and requirements and improved build instructions, moved wsdl_extensions to doc/ from README_files, simplified wsif.css (much less colors, easier to read ...)
• preparing first official release: added RELEASE_TASKS.txt
• work on first alpha release