Joe, As others on this list have mentioned, both custom serializers as well as the bean serializers work very well in the Axis architecture (where each serializer is responsible to contribute the correct schema description for its associated type to the overall WSDL).
I have noticed a few minor issues with respect to .Net/Axis interoperability (.Net understands xsi:null, but does not send it everywhere, Axis can be lost without xsi:type annotations although that information could be inferred from bean reflection and the serializer registry, collections serialization needs some special care, some BeanSerializer generated wrong-cased element definitions, ...), but these were mainly in the context of writing dedicated EntityBean<->ADO.Net serializers for a new kind of Web-Service/EJB architecture. ADO.NET and MS-Web Services Toolkit were obviously developed from different groups with different philosophies and have been, it seems, forced to integrate in .NET, so my prototype still does not fully work, must hack around a lot of unintuitive subtleties not specified anywhere and it will take until next year to finish this work. Please look at the soapbuilders interoperability initiative for more detail results on this http://www.whitemesa.com/interop.htm I havn´t installed/tested Altoweb (http://www.altoweb.com), so didn´t I use CapeClear (http://capeclear.com) yet. They claim to be JBoss-compatible and I´m quite sure that they have some similar examples. CGJ -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Joe Hung [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Gesendet: Mittwoch, 18. Dezember 2002 18:48 An: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Cc: Joe Hung Betreff: RE: [JBoss-user] Fastest (and stable) way to turn existing EJBs i nto Web Services? Thanks Dr. Jung. It's good to hear that we should have JBoss.net ready in JBoss 3.2 by the end of...2002? ;) I don't really need fancy registry, and basic authentication is good enough for me. The thing I'm most concerned is, we have around 30 SLSBs but all of them use "value object" pattern that means the parameters in the SLSBs are not basic data types. Also the client is a ".net" client and not a plain Java client. I've been looking for a product that can do the above 2 things, ie (1) custom object serialization (and WSDL of course) and (2) .net client interoperability and I cannot seem to find any! Even on commercial product. Maybe I didn't look hard enough. I really would like your input on the status of the industry and gives me some suggestions. I'm staying on the JBoss side so far and I really hope JBoss.net can give me all these without some major surgery on our code (we use ejbdoclet too). I haven't checked out Altoweb. Do they have an example to show the above 2 requirements? cheers, -joe -----Original Message----- From: Jung , Dr. Christoph [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2002 11:37 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: AW: [JBoss-user] Fastest (and stable) way to turn existing EJBs i nto Web Services? -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- >Von: Joe Hung [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Gesendet: Mittwoch, 18. Dezember 2002 02:30 >An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Betreff: [JBoss-user] Fastest (and stable) way to turn existing EJBs into Web Services? >....if I want to achieve it within the next 2 months? Depends on which JBoss version you want to use and which Web Service requirements you have. >1) Use JBoss with Axis (what version?) >2) Use JBoss.net (what version?) JBoss.net really is Axis with a bit of comfortability around. I will have backported the JBoss4(head)+Axis1(release) combo into JBoss3.2(beta)+Axis1(release) by the end of this year. If - that stability is what you are content with and - you stick pretty much with the "SLSB as Web Service, JavaBean as XML-Structures" approach and - you are satisfied with http-auth security and - you do not want sophisticated XML-registry support I guess that jboss.net could be your choice, especially since the xdoclet task makes it very easy to build. We will also care about smoothly migrating to the J2EE1.4 spec from the web service archive design. >3) Use 3rd party tools like GLUE. I have no experience with it. But they make a good and advanced impression (which they should for the money ;-), nevertheless seems to be somewhat proprietary. What about Altoweb? CGJ ########################################### This message has been scanned by F-Secure Anti-Virus for Microsoft Exchange. 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