On Fri, 2005-10-14 at 15:19 -0700, local-underground wrote: > > In my personal opinion, Java Bean generation is essential. There are many of > us out > there that have depended on abstracting from SOAP details even from > manupulating XML in > the request. To integrate into Axis2, folks are not going to want to take on > too much of > a burden getting up to speed with OM, although it appears that can be avoided > entirely.
Understood. FYI JavaBean generation is nearly done. We have to cover holes w.r.t. handling xsd:any/xsd:anyAttribute etc. but if all goes well this'll all be done by the end of this coming week. --- Tom Jordahl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I believe Axis 1.x is going to continue to be very important to many > > people as Axis2 has stated as non-goals various things (like a > > "complete" Axis specific data binding, full rpc/encoded support, etc) > > that the world still needs. > > > > There have been statements along the lines of "if you need that, why > > wouldn't you use Axis1" made by some Axis2 folks (cough, Sanjiva, > > cough). > > :-) ;-) > > Glen and I are doing our best to nudge the active developers toward > > supporting most (all?) of the stuff that Axis1 does. I for one would > > like to *replace* my use of Axis with Axis2 and not lose compatibility > > in my product, but get all the good stuff (WS-Security, WS-Addressing, a > > decent type mapping system, really good doc/lit everything, a less > > twitchy array deserializer, etc, etc). +1. My view is that the Axis2 "big distro" will be able to do everything Axis1 does. However, I'm absolutely keen on a "core distro" that does not do everything .. restricts itself to WS-I level stuff, doesn't require data binding etc.. That core can then be used as a WS-* framework for say Jython or for implementing a BPEL runtime or to implement Synapse, for example. It'll of course need the tools that generate beans etc. to make developer life easier. I'm keen to get a Axis2 1.0 that's got the "core" function out early so that we can focus on building around it and also on enabling Synapse's of the world to build on it as a stable platform. We already have an effort to build JAX-WS support on top of the core. Like that I expect we will end up having all the function of Axis1 over time .. Sanjiva.
