Naming Conventions and Code Generation
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Key: AXIS-2111
URL: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AXIS-2111
Project: Apache Axis
Type: Wish
Components: WSDL processing
Reporter: Christian Gross
Up until November of last year Axis was a very good and stable Web Services
platform. And ever since then problems with the WSDL generation are cropping
up left right and center. Specially, I am generating stubs for Amazon, Google,
EBay, and PayPal. The biggest major problem I have is that the names are
constantly changing. Granted some of these problems are related to the
companies themselves, but they are doing it because Axis keeps changing.
Let me give an example. Amazon has a hideous WSDL file. For the past year of
so Amazon has made little changes so that the code generators generate nicer
code. However, the code that is generated is specific to a version of Axis.
Change the Axis version, and the code breaks. What really worries me is that
some WSDL's and XSD's are dependent on 1.2 RC2.
I know part of the software development process is to update and fix, and that
developers should not rely on release candidate editions, however, the WSDL
generator is giving me headaches. What especially concerns me are the changes
of the identifiers in minor version numbers.
Consider it as follows, you have bug fixes, but because a minor version changed
the identifiers it means changing the source code and updating the identifiers.
If you have a major application, you will not release a version of your
application because it will cost too much. This means your application would
contain the bugs and potentially the security issues.
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