...Just for the record, Sun did not shun the WS-I and interop. The actual situation is the exact opposite of what you portrayed: Bill Gates approved Microsoft's participation in WS-I only on the condition that Sun would not be invited, as shown by one of the emails that came out in the trials.
And as for Sunâs JWSDK, again, need more info. My understanding is that they shunned the WS-I and Microsoftâs attempts to work on interop. In effect, taking them out of the game. A grim statement, if my understanding is still accurate. Hopefully, if it is not, someone will clarify their position for us.
On the plus side for JAX-RPC RI, the 1.1 version included in JWSDP 1.3 comes with WS-I BP support (something we're unlikely to see from Axis until sometime next year). Axis is definitely much easier to work with than the JAX-RPC RI, though, and I think with enough effort you can build BP-compliant applications using Axis (though only by bypassing the whole data binding implementation and working with a DOM view of the data, AFAIK - I put together a doc/lit service using attachments with this kind of approach last week).
- Dennis
Dennis M. Sosnoski Enterprise Java, XML, and Web Services Support http://www.sosnoski.com Redmond, WA 425.885.7197
