Hello Asankha, Thanks for your input. Yes, you are right - I think we need to analyze our use cases more to understand which would be a better fit.
Regards, Murali -----Original Message----- From: Asankha C. Perera [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, February 23, 2008 10:43 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Mediators vs Handlers Murali I think if you are going to do things such as auditing, identification etc, for many services and always expose these services via the ESB for better management, versioning and policy enforcement etc. it would be easier and better to do this with mediators instead of handlers. Then you could easily configure the mediators with a common sequence, and edit any parameters etc much easily than with a module. However, if you wish to do these closer to the actual services (maybe for security purposes?) etc, handlers would be better too. I think this decision is made best by you, considering your environment and use cases asankha Gunasekaran, Murali wrote: > Hello Group, > > We are currently debating using Synapse and are at crossroads over the > implementation of certain things like auditing, consumer identification as > mediators or plain Axis2 handlers. > > > > Mediators are very flexible and easy to develop and play well with other > mediators currently in Synapse. If we use Axis2 handlers, configuring them on > a per-service basis would involve going the ‘rampart-way’ – i.e. creating a > Neethi assertion that would be embedded as part of the Policy associated with > the service. (services.xml) . Are there any drawbacks in using Mediators (or > Handlers) with respect to the other? > > > > If you could share your opinions/thoughts on what is a technically better > solution, I would really appreciate it. > > > > Thanks, > > Murali > > > > > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.20.9/1294 - Release Date: 2/22/2008 > 6:39 PM > > > No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.20.9/1294 - Release Date: 2/22/2008 6:39 PM No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.20.9/1294 - Release Date: 2/22/2008 6:39 PM
