On Mon, 2006-03-20 at 09:01 -0800, Paul Brown wrote: > > I'm on the same page with this -- it makes sense to keep the engine as > small as possible and use existing packages to layer on orthogonal > functionality (like SOAP handling), but I'd also like to be sure that > we maintain a reasonable level of purity and isolation -- using AXIS > as the default SOAP protocol stack shouldn't preclude the clear > integration of something like XFire or an application server's JAX-WS > stack by another user. Just the same, the core engine should be have > the absolute minimum number of library dependencies to maximize the > possibilities for integrating it into other runtimes.
+1; since the services exposed by the BPEL process are simply WSDL described services, I don't see why there'd be a need to have a deep coupling to Axis stuff for the sake of invoking into a process. Sanjiva.
