Re: WSIF - Is it dead?

[easter]

I can't speak for the entire package, but for what we use it for, it's very useful for instanciating web services dynmically.
What if, for example, your application needs a search service, but you only know at runtime which search service to use?
Or you want to automatically fail over to another search if your principal service fails?
The current axis implementation is limited to working with hard coded web services at the source code level (unless you do some
awesome code gymnastics), wsif provides a way to generically invoke web services at runtime.

But I'm sure it has loads of other functionality I'm not using...


WH

Bahman Kalali wrote:

I have been working on WSDL for long time but I have never used WSIF.

Can anyone tell me what is WSIF? and what is the relation between WSDL and
WSIF?

Thank you very much in advance for your advice,

--Bahman

----- Original Message -----
From: "Pae Choi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, November 29, 2002 5:41 PM
Subject: Re: WSIF - Is it dead?

That's a strong viewpoint from an IBMer. Maybe that's because
the package came from IBM, perhaps?

I can count you as one user, but not buying the expression "Lots."

Any comments? So I can increase the counter, two, three, ... :-)


pae


----- Original Message -----
From: "Anthony Elder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, November 29, 2002 12:27 PM
Subject: Re: WSIF - Is it dead?

No WSIF isn't dead! Lots of people are using it.

Probably the biggest most recent example is the quite high profile it

took

in the announcement of IBM's latest version of WebSphere this week, see:

http://www.aspnews.com/strategies/companies/article/0,2350,10576_1547561,00.

html

http://www.ibm.com/software/info1/websphere/index.jsp?tab=news/ibmnews/pr112

502&S_TACT=102BBW01&S_CMP=campaign

I think one of the reasons WSIF doesn't get many questions on the AXIS
lists is that people still seem to use the old alphaWorks discussion

group

(http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/forum/wsif.nsf) for questions. I've asked
alphaWorks to update the WSIF page to point to Apache but it hasn't

happen

yet.

I encourage you to keep on using it, as far as I know there is nothing

else

available that has similar functionality.

...ant

Anthony Elder
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Web Services Development
IBM UK Laboratories, Hursley Park
(+44) 01962 818320, x248320, MP208.


easter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 29/11/2002 16:26:42

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I've noticed since my subscription to this list, that no-one at all
seems to use WSIF, or (less likely) it's too well documented and
bug-free to warrant any
mailing list discussions.

Is there something else I should be using instead? Is it going to go

away?

I've found nothing else which allows me to generically and dynamically
connect 2 web services together using nothing
more than their WSDL descriptions.
I feel since I seem to be the only one on the planet to do this, perhaps
I'm doing something wrong?

Cheers.
WH