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

[Heiko Braun]

no, it's the first time i see that.

/Heiko

On Fri, 2007-09-21 at 15:28 +0200, Thomas Diesler wrote:
> 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
> --
> Stefan Tilkov, http://www.innoq.com/blog/st/