The main specific issue I know of is that the BP forbids rpc/encoded and it generally appears very difficult to make Axis work with anything *other than* rpc/encoded. There have been many discussions on this list in the past (and I see a new one today) dealing with problems doing doc/lit in Axis. The only solution I've found to implementing doc/lit using Axis is to bypass code generation completely and go with a DOM model for the service (using the "Document handleRequest(Document request)" form of the service method interface).
As I understand it JAX-RPC 1.1 includes changes to support full BP compliant operation when using their code generation from WSDL. I haven't really experimented with this side of things, though, so don't know all the details.
- Dennis
Davanum Srinivas wrote:
Dennis,
Have you submitted any bug reports? on where Axis lacks compliance? Do you have a small example/test case/use-case that we can use to begin work on WS-I compliance?
Thanks, dims
--- Dennis Sosnoski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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...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 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.
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
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