Re: [jbossws-dev] [Fwd: InfoQ Article on Open Source WS Stacks]

Hi Folks, has any of you provided feedback to Stefan Tilkov while I was on holiday? cheers -thomas -------- Forwarded Message -------- From: Stefan Tilkov <stefan.tilkov(a)innoq.com&gt; To: Diephouse Dan <dan(a)envoisolutions.com&gt;, Arjen Poutsma <apoutsma(a)interface21.com&gt;, Paul Fremantle <paul(a)wso2.com&gt;, Thomas Diesler <thomas.diesler(a)jboss.com&gt;, Arun Gupta <Arun.Gupta(a)sun.com&gt; Subject: InfoQ Article on Open Source WS Stacks Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2007 17:59:50 +0200 All, I am looking to write a piece for InfoQ (http://www.infoq.com) on open source web services stacks for Java, including Axis2, CXF, JBossWS, Metro, and Spring WS. My plan is to ask all of you a number of questions (I hope you all feel that you are the correct person to talk to, please let me know if you're not). I'm explicitly not trying to do a "shootout" or evaluation. Rather, I'm interested in finding out where the philosophy, goals and design approaches behind the stacks are similar and where they differ. I will consolidate the answers into a single piece, taking care to keep it neutral. The schedule is: 1) Please indicate that you want to participate until the end of the week, 9 September at the latest (if I don't get a reply, I assume you don't want to) 2) Please send me your answers to the questions below until the end of next week (16 September). I suggest you send them only to me, not to the rest of the list :-) Be sure to keep each answer to 500 words as an absolute maximum (I will cut and paraphrase and quote wildly, so don't expect everything you answer will be included verbatim). 3) I'll send you the final draft by September 24 for you to check whether I have quoted you correctly, and to gather final feedback. Without further ado, here are the questions: (1) Can you describe the main design goals of "your" framework? What do you perceive as its main strengths and unique features? (2) What's your position on and the framework's support for JCP standards such as JAX-WS, JAX-RPC, JAXM, JAXB? Why is support for it included/not included? (3) What Web services standards do you support, and why are those you don't support not supported (i.e. do you plan to include them later, not at all, ...) (4) What's your position with regards to data binding and the problems many people associate with it? Do you support native access to the XML message, an XML/object mapping, or both? (5) How well do you support interoperability with other WS implementations, particularly .NET/WCF? (6) What is your position with regards to REST? Do you offer any kind of REST support? (7) What is your framework's maturity? Are there any case studies you can point to, are there any commercial or open source products that rely on it? Thanks! Stefan Tilkov InfoQ SOA Editor -- Stefan Tilkov, http://www.innoq.com/blog/st/