[krazo-dev] Discussion about future of krazo-cxf

[Tobias Erdle <tobi.erdle@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,

with this mail I'd like to open a discussion about the future of the 
Krazo CXF integration. We talked a few minutes about that topic during 
the MVC call, but decided that this is more a topic for the Krazo 
mailing list.

In my opinion, we should think about dropping the CXF support in the 
next major release and deprecate it in a minor release. My reasons for 
this are:

- CXF seems to getting replaced in OpenLiberty by RESTEasy during the 
update to Jakarta RESTful Web Services 3.0 (see 
https://github.com/OpenLiberty/open-liberty/issues/11803). That means, 
that the big application servers all use JAX-RS implementations we are 
supporting really good and only TomEE is left with CXF, which is, in my 
perception, a niche product.
- Most of our workarounds are CXF related and investigating issues costs 
a lot of time because of little documentation and a really big codebase 
of CXF itself.
- I tried to understand CXF Bean Validation to fix an Krazo issue and 
asked for help on the mailinglist, but didn't receive a single anwser. I 
don't know if it was only bad luck or if they aren't really interested 
in this topic. Anyway, I think it's hard to implement and maintain an 
integration for a framework where is only little information available 
for deep technical questions.


So that are my two cents onto this topic. What are you thinking about this?


Best regards,

Tobias