Mitch Gitman has an article up on JavaWorld talking about Web service styles (http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-10-2003/jw-1003-wsstyles.html?). In the second page he covers several attempted approaches to implementing a doc/lit service using Axis (none of which work properly) and comes to the conclusion that "while Axis purports to support document/literal, it actually doesn't."

Any comments? I've played around with doc/lit using Axis myself and ran into problems, but assumed I could find a work-around with enough effort (probably by avoiding WSDL2Java and Java2WSDL, and supplying my own WSDL for the service - at which point Axis isn't really adding a lot of value). Mitch says that Axis flat out doesn't support doc/lit, though he appears to only be working with the W2J/J2W tools.

- Dennis


Reply via email to