I have tested WSDP WSTK and AXIS and I thing AXIS is the best!. WSDP is a too low level and WSTK is an IBM tool so even it is free at the moment it won't be soon. Axis is for free and have very good features.
regards. ----- Mensaje Original ----- Remitente: Giacomo Fiorentini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fecha: Jueves, Julio 4, 2002 10:52 am Asunto: SOAP -- .net interoperability -- questions > > Hi all, > I'm new on this mailing list. I have the following question: > > what are the relationship, differences, prospectives, expectations > of the > following SOAP implementations/libraries/tools: > > Java Web Service Developer Pack 1.0 > Apache SOAP 2.3.1 > Apache Axis beta 2 > Web Service Toolkit from IBM > > I know that this was a strange question, but we have to decide the > besttools/library for new projects, that will have to interoperate > withMicrosoft .net ws. > > I tried the Axis beta 2, with interoperability with .net (to and > from), and > I didn't found particular problems (I was limited with base data > types), but > I wonder what can be the problems on mappings complex structures > like .net > DataSet. > > Apache SOAP and WSDP are very useful for deep programming with > SOAP, but are > not very easy to program. I found that the manual generation of > WSDL files > is not very useful for designing large projects: it's an added > complexitynot necessary. > > I think that the simple meccanismo on axis, that provides automatic > generation of WSDL files simply adding the ?wsdl is very very > useful, and > it's very similar to the .net ws behaviour. > > For completeness, I'm not jet tried the WSTK. > > > Any comments, suggestions are welcome. > > Thanks. > > > Giacomo Fiorentini > >
