[teiid-dev] XML SOAP Connectors

Last couple days I have been looking into alternative ways to XML Connectors than what Teiid currently have to execute SOAP based calls Teiid currently uses mix of some grown client code using Apache's HTTP Client and Axis 1.3 libraries. It has been desire to remove these dependencies from multiple libraries and more tightly integrate with the JBoss technologies. For that I looked at JBoss ESB: They provide something called "SoapClient" which based on "SoapUI" based client library. Using the ESB is nice, as it removes the transport level concerns from Teiid and places them on the ESB, however I feel that, we may be pulling in more dependencies and tooling around this may be an issue. JAX-WS and JBoss WS: JAX-WS provides a "Service" and "Dispatch" interface similar to Axis's "Call" interface. This seems promising, and supports HTTP Basic auth. Looks like JBoss WS implementation of the JAX-WS (native, metro, cxf) all support WS-Security. CXF is even based WSSJ which is also used by Axis. Although, ESB based solution is one fix for all this different XML messages from different sources and can fix our transport issues, this is moving issue another level and based on Teiid's SOAP usage model, this can introduce more latency in the calls along with tooling issues. IMO, JAX-WS based solution is good, but not sure what is preferred implementation between native, metro and cxf from JBoss WS. Also, there is good bit of development involved on Teiid to replace the code. But I feel this work must be done in 7.0 or 7.1 releases. I welcome any volunteers who is knowledgeable in this area to comment and help us with the solution. Thank you. Ramesh..