[jbossws-dev] Re: DIME support on JBoss EAP 4.3

[Thomas Diesler]

... also note, that Axis seems to have dropped DIME in Axis-2.0

http://jbws.dyndns.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=JBossWSStackComparison


Thomas Diesler wrote:
> Hi Lucas,
> 
> we do not support DIME and, which is also not on our roadmap. Instead we 
> support SOAP with Atachments (SwA) and XOP/MTOM.
> 
> Direct Internet Message Encapsulation (DIME) is a Microsoft-proposed 
> internet standard for the transfer of binary and other encapsulated data 
> over SOAP.
> 
> According to the IETF web site, the standard has been withdrawn and 
> never made RFC status.
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_Internet_Message_Encapsulation
> 
> Axis (especially 1.x), because of its numerous inherent problems, not 
> standardized API, poor support for document literal is not supported in 
> JBoss. A migration to standard J2EE web services (i.e. JAX-WS) should be 
> considered.
> 
> cheers
> -thomas
> 
> Lucas Ponce wrote:
>> Hello Thomas,
>>
>> My name is Lucas Ponce, JBoss Solution Architect, we are doing a 
>> important Proof of Concept in ING Spain in order to compare us with 
>> JBoss WebSphere.
>>
>> JEAP has integrated JBossWS 2.0.1 SP2, please could you confirm me if 
>> this version support DIME or not ?
>>
>> This customer uses AXIS 1.4 and they want to reuse this WS engine 
>> instead of JBossWS.
>>
>> Thanks a lot,
>>
> 

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