Hello,
The key contribution of WSIF is its WSDL-centric view of the world, which lets you integrate software by offering them as WSDL services, taking advantage of WSDL's extensibility. SOAP of course retains its importance for interoperability, platform independence, etc. and WSIF correctly views this as just another way to expose your software to clients.
Also "merging" WSIF functionality into Axis as it stands now is comparing apples to oranges - WSIF fits in very well with Axis - Axis is the default provider implementation for invoking SOAP services. But WSIF is a higher level API for invoking WSDL-described services, SOAP or otherwise.
All my opinions.
Here's an independent endorsement of the WSIF approach: http://searchwebservices.techtarget.com/tip/0,289483,sid26_gci841146,00.html
Nirmal.
| "Pae Choi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
11/29/2002 05:41 PM
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To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc: Subject: Re: WSIF - Is it dead? |
That's a strong viewpoint from an IBMer. Maybe that's because
the package came from IBM, perhaps?
I can count you as one user, but not buying the expression "Lots."
Any comments? So I can increase the counter, two, three, ... :-)
pae
----- Original Message -----
From: "Anthony Elder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, November 29, 2002 12:27 PM
Subject: Re: WSIF - Is it dead?
>
> No WSIF isn't dead! Lots of people are using it.
>
> Probably the biggest most recent example is the quite high profile it took
> in the announcement of IBM's latest version of WebSphere this week, see:
>
http://www.aspnews.com/strategies/companies/article/0,2350,10576_1547561,00.
html
>
http://www.ibm.com/software/info1/websphere/index.jsp?tab=news/ibmnews/pr112
502&S_TACT=102BBW01&S_CMP=campaign
>
> I think one of the reasons WSIF doesn't get many questions on the AXIS
> lists is that people still seem to use the old alphaWorks discussion group
> (http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/forum/wsif.nsf) for questions. I've asked
> alphaWorks to update the WSIF page to point to Apache but it hasn't happen
> yet.
>
> I encourage you to keep on using it, as far as I know there is nothing
else
> available that has similar functionality.
>
> ...ant
>
> Anthony Elder
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Web Services Development
> IBM UK Laboratories, Hursley Park
> (+44) 01962 818320, x248320, MP208.
>
>
> easter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 29/11/2002 16:26:42
>
> Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> cc:
> Subject: WSIF - Is it dead?
>
>
>
> I've noticed since my subscription to this list, that no-one at all
> seems to use WSIF, or (less likely) it's too well documented and
> bug-free to warrant any
> mailing list discussions.
>
> Is there something else I should be using instead? Is it going to go away?
>
> I've found nothing else which allows me to generically and dynamically
> connect 2 web services together using nothing
> more than their WSDL descriptions.
> I feel since I seem to be the only one on the planet to do this, perhaps
> I'm doing something wrong?
>
> Cheers.
> WH
>
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