6856630: Restructure jaxp/jaxws repository

[Kelly O'Hair]

Jonathan Gibbons wrote:
> Kelly O'Hair wrote:
>>
>>
>> Joseph D. Darcy wrote:
>>> Andrew John Hughes wrote:
>>>> 2009/10/23 Kelly O'Hair <Kelly.Ohair at sun.com>:
>>>>  
>>>>> Jonathan Gibbons wrote:
>>>>>  
>>>>>> Kelly O'Hair wrote:
>>>>>>    
>>>>>>> Jonathan Gibbons wrote:
>>>>>>>      
>>>>>>>> Kelly O'Hair wrote:
>>>>>>>>           
>>>
>>> [big snip]
>>>>> DOH!  Sorry...
>>>>>
>>>>> Yes, these jaxp and jaxws forests can probably go away, we won't
>>>>> be using them.
>>>>>
>>>>> The current plan is that jaxp/jaxws changes (new bundles) will go
>>>>> through the TL forest.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> -kto
>>>>>
>>>>>     
>>>>
>>>> I'm guilty of also thinking that Jonathan was referring to the jaxws
>>>> and jaxp repositories per forest, rather than the specific forests.
>>>> On that note, i18n could probably die too because apparently that team
>>>> always use the swing forest for commits.
>>>>
>>>> It would be nice to one day get rid of the jaxp and jaxws trees too.
>>>> I don't actually see why they were created as trees to begin with,
>>>> given they've always been upstream and not a source of many commits.
>>>> The one to actual split up would be jdk, as I can feel Mercurial
>>>> struggling with it a bit already on jdk7.  But I don't know how
>>>> feasible that is, if at all.  Maybe Jigsaw will help there.
>>>>
>>>> One thing that does worry me -- what happens when the jaxws or jaxp
>>>> code needs security updates?
>>>>   
>>>
>>> Yes, the need to support security fixes was considered as part of 
>>> this new delivery model.  Ultimately a revised source bundle with the 
>>> security fixes will need to be produced.  Until then, the fixes can 
>>> be represented as patches which are applied to the sources before the 
>>> build.  Kelly can speak to the implementation details of the patch 
>>> mechanism.
>>
>> It's crude, but should serve in an emergency. See the patches/README.
>> After a bundle is unzipped, all patches are applied, none right now.
>>
>> I hope that we can always just get updated bundles.
>>
>> Originally, the jaxp and jaxws (and corba) workspaces were created
>> mainly as a place to move files from (trim) the original "j2se" 
>> workspace,
>> and we had no idea where we were going with it all, except that we
>> knew these were out of place in the j2se workspace, which became
>> the jdk repository.
>>
>> The jaxp and jaxws repos could just go away someday, but I'll leave
>> that for another day. ;^)
>>
>> Let's just call it evolution. ;^)
>>
>> -kto
>>
>>
>>>
>>> -Joe
> Presumably, it would be "trivial" to move the files from the jaxp, jaxws 
> repositories into the root repository such that the only perceivable 
> difference would be where the hidden .hg files are.   In other words, 
> the current jaxp and jaxws repos simply become subdirectories of the 
> root repository, with no other changes to the makefiles being required.
> 
> -- Jon

Correct.

-kto