Hi Richard, >> Finally, some thoughts I came up to rearding the stack comparison >> topic (as you remember, last time in Munich we said we would have >> unlocked wsse, wsrm, wsa, etc in all stacks and them evaluated them). >> In terms of WS-Security, the CXF stack doesn't offer something >> really special we don't have in native. It has a proprietary >> security configuration almost the same way we have, while the >> documentation and testsuite is really poor on this topic. On the >> contrary, our native stack documentation and available tests on >> WS-Security are pretty good, imho, also thanks to the improvements >> we did on the wiki in the last months. In terms of features >> comparison, native and cxf are almost equal, with a slight >> preference for native thanks to the better jaas integration with >> jboss as. >> The Metro stack, instead, actually offers much more than what we >> have in Native. I'm not talking about the WS-Trust, >> WS-SecureConversation, etc. we don't have at all in Native. WSIT >> supports WS-Security 1.1 and WS-SecurityPolicy, which basically >> means more features than wsse 1.0 and a standard way of configuring >> them all (through policies). Native of course is better integrated >> with the jboss as, but we can work on this topic (see JBWS-2209 for >> example). >> In short, imho moving to CXF wouldn't give us nothing more in terms >> of ws-security, while moving to Metro would require us some further >> work but might potentially give us a lot of new features (indeed we >> already got WS-Security 1.1 and WS-SecurityPolicy covered by tests >> in this 3.0.2 release). Of course wsse is only a (little) slice of >> the whole cake... >> Did you come to some other conclusions? > I need to dive into both CXF and Metro stacks more and then I'll do > the conclusions. Thus I have no opinion yet on this topic. Just to be clear... I meant some other conclusions (or feelings) in other ws area you all have worked since last meeting in Munich, like wsrm, wsa, etc. not in the ws-security field. Cheers Alessio