Well, I have to agree. The docs seem to be the last thing that a developer thinks about - because it's so obvious right? CXF, like a lot of software, badly needs some end to end examples at the very least. Currently, it's very lacking, as was XFire!
Mayank Thakore-2 wrote: > > well, i have spent a lot of time getting cxf to work. > but migrating from xfire, our code reduced from about 1200 lines to 200 > lines. > and i find cxf to be very extensible > > but it's not just coincidence that someone was talking about a book on > cxf just today... > > Regards > Mayank > > On Jan 23, 2008 8:36 PM, jonathan doklovic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> The point being that since this is a users list (not a dev list) I >> thought I'd share my user experience in hopes that it could help the >> future of the project. >> >> If all anyone hears about a project is how great it is and never hears >> why people choose not to use it, then it never progresses. >> >> I was never able to get CXF working properly simply because of the lack >> of simple docs and end-to-end examples. Maybe it's just that I don't >> get it or something, but I feel there are probably a lot of "me's" out >> there that struggle with getting things up and running. >> >> - Jonathan >> >> >> On Wed, 2008-01-23 at 14:47 +0000, Sergey Beryozkin wrote: >> > > After spending about 2 weeks trying to get a very simple service to >> > > return JSON in CXF, I found the Glassfish Metro project and it's >> > > jaxws-json plugin. >> > >> > What's the point of this post ? Say to the world that you're not >> > happpy with CXF ? >> > Or tell everyone that you could've commited a patch after spending 2 >> > days on it but just didn't get enough time :-) ? >> > >> > Cheers, Sergey >> > >> > >> > >> > ----- Original Message ----- >> > From: "jonathan doklovic" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> > To: "cxfuser" <cxf-user@incubator.apache.org> >> > Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2008 2:37 PM >> > Subject: Leaving CXF for Glasshfish Metro >> > >> > >> > > Hi, >> > > >> > > After spending about 2 weeks trying to get a very simple service to >> > > return JSON in CXF, I found the Glassfish Metro project and it's >> > > jaxws-json plugin. >> > > >> > > I gave it a shot and after 2 hours had my service up and running. >> > > Not only that, but the plugin generates pretty api docs at the >> > endpoint >> > > for me as well as generates a javascript client on the fly. >> > > >> > > It was just too easy to make me stick with CXF. >> > > >> > > I think CXF is probably a good framework, but the docs and examples >> > are >> > > in pieces and without real life end-to-end tutorials, it's really >> > hard >> > > to get things working. >> > > >> > > - Jonathan >> > ---------------------------- >> > IONA Technologies PLC (registered in Ireland) >> > Registered Number: 171387 >> > Registered Address: The IONA Building, Shelbourne Road, Dublin 4, >> Ireland >> >> > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Leaving-CXF-for-Glasshfish-Metro-tp15043303p15219122.html Sent from the cxf-user mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
