Ahhh BP as in Basic Profile. -----Original Message----- From: Dennis Sosnoski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2003 5:12 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Why choose Axis?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >... > >And as for Sun's JWSDK, again, need more info. My understanding is that >they shunned the WS-I and Microsoft's 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. > 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. 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
