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

[Thomas Diesler]

The WS part of their application would have to be migrated to JAX-WS, 
which is a general investment into the future. Note, that I am not 
saying to JBossWS. A migration to a standard is the investment.

How much it will eventually cost, I cannot say. Their WS expert could do 
a sample migration of one or two endpoints to get an estimate.

cheers
-thomas

Lucas Ponce wrote:
> Hello again Thomas,
> 
> Any thoughts about how costly we can forward to customer in a migration 
> from DIME to SwA with JBoss-WS.
> 
> Thanks a lot !
> 
> Lucas
> 
> Lucas Ponce escribió:
>> Thanks Thomas,
>>
>> I'm not very expert in Web Services, your comments are very helpful 
>> for me.
>>
>> A hypothetical migration from DIME to SwA and XOP/MTOM, according with 
>> your experience, it will be more manual or automatic ? I would like to 
>> give them some feedback in term of how costly will be if the decide to 
>> move from AXIS to JBossWS.
>>
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Lucas
>>
>>
>> Thomas Diesler escribió:
>>> 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 According to the IETF web site, the standard has been withdrawn and 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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Thomas Diesler
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