Hi,
I've been working with the Axis/Castor document literal approach to web services. ( see IBM's article http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/webservices/library/ws-castor/ ). Although I have gotten this to work with one of my web services, it does not seem like a very sound model to build on as things stand now. If you were to develop numerous web services, the logical components to save ( to me anyway ) in a repository ( like Clearcase or CVS ) would seem to be the WSDL and Schema files ( since the other files (beans, deploy.wsdd, etc ) are generated). The problem is that you have to make changes to the files by hand, which are generated by the wsdl2java and org.exolab.castor.builder.SourceGenerator tools, and they seem to produce what can be very different results. They also produce quirky results like errant underscores and/or '>' symbols. If you have lots of web services and want to regenerate your web services out of Clearcase from a build, you'd have a ton of changes to make; Not a very reproducible scenario. Yes, this approach works, but what am I missing here? Can someone straighten me out as to what the community is working towards and how my thinking is flawed.
Thanks in advance.
Ed Tolsch
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