[higgins-dev] About OpenXRI

["Paul Trevithick" <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Steven,

I don't know if you've been following all this, but Higgins is in the
process of re-implementing the IdAS Registries (see [1]). As I understand
it, Tom of Novell and perhaps others are going to start trying to implement
this stuff. And as you can see it depends on xri resolution.

In parallel Mary and I are looking at OpenXRI from the point of view of
putting together a CQ (Contribution Questionnaire) for Eclipse legal. In
doing so I see that the readme says OpenXRI has the following dependencies:

   - Apache Xerces (DOM3 for building, DOM2 or DOM3 at runtime)
   - Apache Xalan
   - Apache XML Security 
   - Apache Commons Logging
   - Apache Log4J
   - IBM ICU4J
   - JUG 
   - JUnit (only needed for test classes)
   - Java Servlet API (for building, server can be deployed in any 
                       compliant servlet container)

This raises a number of questions. First, from a legal review work
minimization point of view, do you think that we need *all* of the openxri
code (and thus all of the above 3rd party dependencies)? OpenXRI has a
number of components (e.g. server, client, etc). Do you think we need all of
these?

If we do need all of these. We will probably need some help doing the
following: (1) tracking down the exact version number of the above 3rd party
libraries and comparing those versions with the versions of those components
that have already been approved (2) making sure that all of the source files
have headers, copyrights, licenses, etc. 

[1] http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/IdAS_Registries_Proposal_2B