[Axis2][VOTE] handling WSDL's multiple services/ports (JIRA-965)

[Lori Van Gulick]

Vote: Accept the changes for JIRA-965 as an interim solution.

Hi,

I have submitted a patch for JIRA-965 which contains an extension to WSDL11ToAxisServiceBuilder which will retrieve all the ports on all the services in the WSDL and return them as a List of AxisService objects.  Only users of the new extension would see the new behavior.  Existing users of WSDL11ToAxisServiceBuilder will not be affected.  I have verified that all the tests still pass with the patch.  The patch also contains cooresponding changes for WSDL20ToAxisServiceBuilder, and a new test for the new extensions.

Concerns have been expressed here on the mailing list that this is not the correct solution to the problem.  A more correct solution would be to add an axisEndpoint object.  The details of this change have yet to be worked out, but it seems clear to me that this will be a significant change which we would not want to undertake at this point given that we are trying to stabilize Axis2 for a 1.1 release.  

I need this functionality as soon as possible, so I would like to be able to commit my change as an interim solution.  Once Axis2 1.1 is complete I would like to revisit the topic of adding axisEndpoint and work out all the details at that point.

Thanks,
Lori.

Lori Van Gulick
WebSphere Development
IBM Austin
(512) 838-7929