Re: [wtp-dev] Action required for adopters of org.eclipse.wst.wsdl for W

[Amy Wu <wuamy@xxxxxxxxxx>]

We chose not to increase the major version
in the org.eclipse.wst.wsdl plugin because we did not make any API changes
in the plugin.  javax.wsdl introduced new API, which the wst.wsdl
plugin uses.  During my testing, I found that even though clients
were using our existing API, they could run into compile errors like:
The type javax.wsdl.extensions.AttributeExtensible
cannot be resolved. It is indirectly referenced from required .class files
(AttributeExtensible being new API in
javax.wsdl)

And if there were no compile errors,
there was still the possibility of runtime errors depending on how they
used our wsdl model.  And that's why I recommended bumping up the
lower bound together.

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David Carver <dcarver@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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01/14/2009 02:33 PM

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Subject	Re: [wtp-dev] Action required for adopters of        org.eclipse.wst.wsdl        for        WTP 3.1 M5

Amy Wu wrote:
>
> Sure, people can go ahead and widen their ranges now to prevent build
> breakage.  But I would advise soon after the wsdl changes are
released 
> (I'll notify the mailing list when this happens), the lower bound
> tightens up again.  If by some fluke, someone has only 
> org.eclipse.wst.wsdl 1.2.0 & javax.wsdl 1.4.1, they may run into
errors.
I don't necessarily see that as an issue, if the new version is still 
backwards compatible with the old version, and they are only using API's
that existing in 1.2 and 1.4.1, those same APIs should exist in the new
versions as well, otherwise it's a major version change.   I would
go as 
far to set the upper bound to 2.0 in both cases, but I'm more liberal 
that way.

Dave

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