--- Eran Chinthaka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> This will some relate to the thread "Doubt on Detail
> Element in SOAPFault".
>
> AXIOM was not meant to check the compliance with
> SOAP spec or anything else.
> It will just hold the infoset. The reason behind me
> putting a SAAJ like api
> on top of OM was to provide developer convenience.
> For example, rather than
> saying element.getFirstElement(), developers love to
> use
> envelope.getHeader(). So, that was the intention of
> providing that sort of
> SOAP jargon in to Axiom. This was our initial idea.
>
> But later, some have put some checks in to the AXIOM
> SOAP api. And the
> earlier thread also was asking about this
> validation.
>
> So I have a small question on this. What should we
> have in AXIOM ??
>
> 1. Shall we "KISS" Axiom, and let it be just a info
> set holder.
> - If this is the case, this will not affect the
> performance, due to
> validation and stuff. And if we make it like this
> how we gonna provide
> validation or do we need to provide validation. Can
> we leave this up to the
> user ?
> 2. Shall we make AXIOM SOAP stuff do validation on
> SOAP 1.1 spec as well.
> - This will definitely affect the performance.
>
>
> IMHO, I prefer option 1, which is basically my
> initial idea as well.
+1 for option 1. Keep AXIOM as simple as possible and
layer everything on top it in a manner that when we
want performance we can take all that fancy code off
through some switch! I would like to see AXIOM by
default to be in this mode and if someone wants it to
do error checking, schema aware parsing, builder
extensions, etc. etc. he has to go an explicitly set
those flags.
One more comment about programmer convenience. AXIOM
was designed with performance in mind. Hence certain
methods were introduced which were obviously not the
most convenient methods to use and certain others were
consciously left out. However, since then many methods
have been added and certain architectural changes too
have been made considering requests from users. IMO
this trend should stop.
--Dasarath
>
> What do you all think about this ?
>
>
> Thanks,
> Eran Chinthaka
>
>
>
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