[Midpoint-dev] Namespace change, version 3

[Radovan Semancik]

Hi,

The next midPoint release will be version 3.0. We are planning to use 
this opportunity of major version release to clean up some deprecated 
functionality that were polluting midPoint schemas for years. We also 
needed to do some minor (but important) changes to schemas related to 
the JSON and YAML support and also brought the web service interface to 
reflect the capabilities of Java interfaces. All of this resulted in a 
fact that midPoint schemas for version 3.0 are not 100% compatible with 
version 2.x schemas.

One of the purposes of namespacing mechanism is to indicate data 
compatibility. Therefore according with this principle we are currently 
changing all the schema namespaces to version 3. The change for the 
users is to replace all namespace versiosions in XML document (e.g. 
replace all "http://..../types-2" with "http://..../types-3" and so on). 
But also other minor changes may be required especially in cases that 
you were using a deprecated functionality. Please refer to the 
documentation in such cases. No midPoint functionality is removed, only 
the way of expressing it may have changed. Please also note that there 
is a embedded documentation in schema XSD files and that the 
documentation of deprecated elements often points to a current element 
to express the configuration.

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                                            Radovan Semancik
                                           Software Architect
                                              evolveum.com