Sanjiva-- On 1/4/06, Sanjiva Weerawarana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Eddie, > > > The near term goal is to ship a WSM 1.0 that has passed the JSR-181 > > TCK and then start adding additional features like: > > > > - supporting web service runtime specific annotations for type > > mapping, message buffering, configuration, etc > > - generating JAX-RPC source artifacts > > - drop-in deployment > > - Axis2 support > > - etc. > > Excellent! > > > For the folks working on the jaxws module, any chance that you'd be > > interested in reusing the annotation processing infrastructure that > > we've built? > > +1, but, um, do u force XMLBeans support on anyone using the annotation > stuff u guys have done? Sorry I haven't looked at what's there so > apologies if its a dumb question. If you do that's bad from Axis2's POV > because we're very strictly data binding agnostic.
Absolutely not. :) XMLBeans is one of the types that is (partially) supported, but it is by no means required. Developers should be able to use generated Axis types, JavaBeans, etc for data binding. We do have a binary dependency on XMLBeans for WSDL parsing when in top-down web service development using a prototype tool called "wsdl2ajava" for converting WSDL to an annotated Java file. But, I'm planning on switching this to wsdl4j and make the XMLBeans JAR *entirely* optional. > > > Also would be great to have some Axis community feedback on what we > > have currently built and any input / patches to take it forward. :) > > If needed, I'd be happy to cut a milestone release and add it to Maven > > to make it easier to get started building annotated web services. > > We're working hard to get the base system completed and at or near 1.0 > status ASAP. So I'd say this'll have to come after that .. we're not > targeting SAAJ and JAX-WS support in 1.0 - that'll come ASAP after that. > (SAAJ may be ready but basically its not a requirement for 1.0 .. so if > its ready it'll ship but if not it won't!) > No problem -- just wanted Axis users to be aware of the existence of our project. Since it's not hosted under ws.apache.org, it's not as discoverable. Would be happy to contribute to the evolution of Axis2 post 1.0 with annotation processing infrastructure for 181, JAX-WS, etc. Will keep watch over this. Would also welcome any feedback on what we've got today for Axis 1.x from anyone who's interested. Eddie > Sanjiva.
