Contributing to Spring Web Services

Spring Web Services is released under the Apache 2.0 license. If you would like to contribute something, or simply want to hack on the code this document should help you get started.

Code of Conduct

This project adheres to the Contributor Covenant code of conduct. By participating, you are expected to uphold this code. Please report unacceptable behavior to spring-code-of-conduct@pivotal.io.

Using Github issues

We use Github issues to track bugs and enhancements. If you have a general usage question please ask on Stack Overflow. The Spring Web Services team and the broader community monitor the spring-ws tag.

If you are reporting a bug, please help to speed up problem diagnosis by providing as much information as possible. Submitting a github-hosted sample project replicating the problem helps.

Sign the Contributor License Agreement

If you have not previously done so, please fill out and submit the Contributor License Agreement.

Signing the contributor’s agreement does not grant anyone commit rights to the main repository, but it does mean that we can accept your contributions, and you will get an author credit if we do. Active contributors might be asked to join the core team, and given the ability to merge pull requests.

Code Conventions and Housekeeping

None of these are essential for a pull request, but they help. They can also be added after the original pull request but before a merge.

Use the Spring Framework code format conventions.
Make sure all new .java files to have a simple Javadoc class comment with at least an @author tag identifying you, and preferably at least a paragraph on what the class is for.
Add the ASF license header comment to all new .java files (copy from existing files in the project)
Add yourself as an @author to the .java files that you modify substantially (more than cosmetic changes).
Add some Javadocs.
A few unit tests would help a lot as well — someone has to do it.
If no-one else is using your branch, please rebase it against the current main (or other target branch in the main project).
When writing a commit message please follow these conventions.

Building from source

This project includes the Maven wrapper, meaning you don’t have to install any CLI tools to compile. Simply clone it and do this:

Default build

The project can be built from the root directory using the standard Maven wrapper command:

$ ./mvnw clean package

If you are rebuilding often, you might also want to skip the tests until you are ready to submit a pull request:

$ ./mvnw clean package -Dmaven.test.skip=true

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