1) Not that i know of 2) Absolutely 3) Axis2 please :) -- dims
On 11/8/05, Tom Oinn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > We're planning to use Axis2 in Taverna to construct SOAP requests, > probably not using any form of data binding as we have our own and just > using the send / receive SOAP body functionality. > > This means we have to be able to inspect arbitrary WSDL documents and > determine the input schema in such a way that we can present appropriate > 'input' and 'output' ports on our workflow components - this is slightly > non trivial as we can attempt to split up sequence elements on input > documents into different inputs and suchlike. > > Until recently we were using the WSIF library to present a slightly > friendlier interface on the schema support in WSDL4J but changes in the > latter have broken this for the time being. > > It occurs to me that our requirement is probably not unique, and that it > might be useful for the more message driven approach in Axis2 to have > richer schema support for type declarations in WSDL definitions. Unless > anyone knows of a really good existing lightweight Java model for schema > (I've looked but no luck) that can be glued into WSDL4J's Definition > model we're going to write one - the purpose being to inspect a WSDL > file and, for a given operation, provide enough information in a > friendly and easy to digest form for a dynamic invoker to build a > compliant request document / parse a response. Note that this is _not_ a > databinding layer, just type metadata. Actual databinding could > obviously be driven off it though. > > 1) Does this exist? > 2) Would anyone else use it? > 3) We're happy to contribute it to Axis2, to any other project or to > manage it ourselves, any preferences? > > Cheers, > > Tom > -- Davanum Srinivas : http://wso2.com/blogs/
