[jbossws-dev] Re: JBoss web services versus AXE?

Hi Rob, Is "Apache Web Services" the Axis stack? http://ws.apache.org/axis2/ If so, it is because Axis is the worst stack out there, which is also far from beeing a JavaEE5 certified stack. A more valid question would be why do we not ship with the Sun RI (https://jax-ws.dev.java.net/) or XFire (http://xfire.codehaus.org/) both of which are more feature complete and stable than Axis. The problem with XFire is that it is not (yet) JavaEE5 certified and does not (and will not) support JAXRPC. The Sun RI is certified but also does not support JAXRPC but recently has made good progress and provides support for a number of WS-* specifications. For future direction we plan that JBossWS uses both of these stacks as the underlying engine. So you will be able to run JBossWS: AS50, AS42, AS40, TC55 JBossWS-RI: AS50, AS42, AS40, TC55 JBossWS-XF: AS50, AS42, AS40, TC55 This is planed for jbossws-2.1.0 (01-Sep-2007) Bottom Line: If you care about interoperability use a certified stack, which Axis is not. cheers -thomas On Thu, 2007-05-10 at 13:29 -0400, Robert Greathouse wrote: -- xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Thomas Diesler Web Service Lead JBoss, a division of Red Hat xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx