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

[Thomas Diesler]

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 at innoq.com>
To: Diephouse Dan <dan at envoisolutions.com>, Arjen Poutsma
<apoutsma at interface21.com>, Paul Fremantle <paul at wso2.com>, Thomas
Diesler <thomas.diesler at jboss.com>, Arun Gupta <Arun.Gupta at sun.com>
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
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Stefan Tilkov, http://www.innoq.com/blog/st/
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Thomas Diesler
Web Service Lead
JBoss, a division of Red Hat
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