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Christian Gross commented on AXIS-2111:
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I am having problems with the Amazon, Google Word Sense, and Paypal WSDL's.  
Most of the samples and distributed libraries are coded depending on a certain 
release of the Axis API's.  

Part of the problem relates back to the jar files.  As much as we would like to 
say it is not an issue, it is.  When you use Version X of Axis, you version Y 
of the WSDL, and version Z of the XML jars, etc.  I find things becoming too 
brittle for my liking.  Even if the generated code generates a neutral 
interface, the implementation seems to be creaping along.

I do realize that I am whining without any solutions, but this creep does not 
seem to be as big of an issue with .NET as I generate both .NET and Java code.

> Naming Conventions and Code Generation
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>          Key: AXIS-2111
>          URL: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AXIS-2111
>      Project: Apache Axis
>         Type: Wish
>   Components: WSDL processing
>     Reporter: Christian Gross

>
> Up until November of last year Axis was a very good and stable Web Services 
> platform.  And ever since then problems with the WSDL generation are cropping 
> up left right and center.  Specially, I am generating stubs for Amazon, 
> Google, EBay, and PayPal.  The biggest major problem I have is that the names 
> are constantly changing.  Granted some of these problems are related to the 
> companies themselves, but they are doing it because Axis keeps changing.
> Let me give an example.  Amazon has a hideous WSDL file.  For the past year 
> of so Amazon has made little changes so that the code generators generate 
> nicer code.  However, the code that is generated is specific to a version of 
> Axis.  Change the Axis version, and the code breaks.  What really worries me 
> is that some WSDL's and XSD's are dependent on 1.2 RC2.
> I know part of the software development process is to update and fix, and 
> that developers should not rely on release candidate editions, however, the 
> WSDL generator is giving me headaches.  What especially concerns me are the 
> changes of the identifiers in minor version numbers.
> Consider it as follows, you have bug fixes, but because a minor version 
> changed the identifiers it means changing the source code and updating the 
> identifiers.  If you have a major application, you will not release a version 
> of your application because it will cost too much.  This means your 
> application would contain the bugs and potentially the security issues.

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