cara wrote:
Frank,
Hi again. Just to cover our reasons for using gsoap:
1. It is older software ... fewer bugs. Lower risk for a production
project.
But it does not have that many WS-* coverage that Axis2/C has
2. We used it for an rpc wsdl, so nothing too fancy as far as wsdls go.
Axis2/C focus on doclit model
3. Our legacy C++ software developers and integration team knows
almost nothing about building C++ code with ant (they dislike all
things java).
Ant was used by Axis C++ project. Axis2/C uses GNU make.
4. Axis2 for java was not ready for production so (at the time) we did
not consider Axis2/c.
Axis2/Java is being used in production, so is Axis2/C.
Samisa...
On 8/20/07, *Samisa Abeysinghe* < [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Frank Zhou wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I am trying to build a web service application in c++,
> and now investigate to see if AXIS2/c can satisfy my
> needs. Specifically, I have the following
> requirements:
>
> (1) The library supports common web services standards
> like SOAP/HTTP/WSDL et cetera. I will use it to build
> a web service client application (web service
> consumer).
>
Axis2/C can handle SOAP over HTTP. But there are some TODOs pending in
WSDL space.
> (2) It should provides a rich set of APIs for me to
> traverse through a WSDL and make SOAP/HTTP calls. In
> particular, I need a WSDL parser so that I can parse
> a
> WSDL (given the WSDL file or the URL)to get the
> definitions. I DO NOT NEED TO CONVERT THE WSDL TO
> C++ code, just need to parse a WSDL to get the
> definitions, later on I will traverse the parsed
> objects to get the services, operations, messages
> and types (XML schemas) et cetera to build my only
> datastore for a given WSDL. This way I can
> dynamically handle different WSDLs in my application
> without generating the c++ code stubs every time.
>
As mentioned earlier, there is a piece of code written in Axis2/C
called
woden, that can deal with the WSDL functionality that you are
looking for.
Unfortunately that is not in the main source tree, because we
could not
maintain it - due to lack of contributors in that space.
At some point, however, someone will again start looking into
that, at
which point you would have WSDL handling features.
> (3) The library is in c++ and available for
> multi-platforms, like windows, linux and unix et
> cetera.
>
Axis2/C is a C library, that works on Windows, Solaris, MacOS and
Linux.
> Please let me know if AXIS2/c is a good choice to me.
> and how it is compared to gSOAP?
>
I am not in a position to do a formal comparison on Axis2/C vs. gSOAP.
However, here is an overview:
- Axis2/C comes with Apache license, and gSOAP comes with GNU
license
- Axis2/C is just two years old, gSOAP has been around for
much longer
- Axis2/C is based on Axis2 architecture, an architecture
designed
to cope with extensions and addition of new WS-* spec implementations.
You would have to refer to gSOAP site on their architecture
- Axis2/C already have full WS-Security and WS-RM implementations,
to my knowledge, gSOAP do not have those specs implemented fully.
(http://www.bloglines.com/blog/samisa?id=57)
- Axis2/C has a comparatively simple deployment model. You get
Apache2 and IIS modules with Axis2/C. If you are using apache
module to
deploy, it is one off configuration. But if gSOAP, you have to
configure
Apache server for each and every service that you cant to deploy.
- Axis2/C has the ability to support many other transports. It
already support HTTP and TCP. WSO2 WSF/C has implemented an XMPP
transport and one of the GSOC students is implementing and SMTP
transport. To my knowledge, gSOAP only support HTTP transport
HTH
Regards,
Samisa...
> Thanks very much.
> Frank
>
>
>
>
>
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