Introduction
Every volunteer project obtains its strength from the people involved in it.
We invite you to participate as much or as little as you choose. The roles
and responsibilities that people can assume in the project are based on
merit. Everybody's input matters!
There are a variety of ways to participate. Regardless of how you choose
to participate, we suggest you join some or all of our mailing lists.
Use the Products & Give Us Feedback
Using the products,reporting bugs, making feature requests, etc. is by
far the most important role. It's your feedback that allows the technology
to evolve.
Contribute Code or Documentation Patches
In this role, you participate in the actual development of the code. If this
is the type of role you'd like to play, here are some steps (in addition to
the ones above) to get you started:
Any and all new development or bug fixing uses the latest code base.
If you have a patch, it should be submitted against the latest available
code.
Getting Support on the Lists
We do all development and bug fixing on the latest available code base.
If you've encountered what you think is a bug, please first check the
issues database for known issues. If you
can't find your bug, make sure you're using the latest code base. We are
not able to fix bugs on earlier code bases.
Please include any relevant version information and the error message
text, if there is one. If you have a problem with a specific interface,
like find_business, you'll likely be asked to post a log of the SOAP
message exchanges between your client and the jUDDI server. You can
use the axis tool
TCPMon
to capture these messages.
Remember, Apache helps those that help themselves. Please take a look
at Eric S. Raymond's and Rick Moen's explanation of
"How to Ask Questions The Smart Way.
jUDDI Wiki
Like other Apache projects, jUDDI maintains a wiki, a sort of virtual
meeting place for the jUDDI community. This is a resource available
to everyone, and you are encouraged to contribute. This is a good resource
for 'HowTos' for common configuration issues.
