Cape Clear, Systinet, webMethods, and (of course) Sun's JAXM reference implementation support JAXM. The other products use a proprietary messaging API -- or they just support SAAJ.
I expect that JAX-RPC 2.0 will include a messaging API. JAX-RPC 2..0 will support a plug-in XML binding framework. The goal is to replace the product-specific binding frameworks with JAXB. But I'm sure that the architecture will permit you to use any binding framework you like.
And yes -- I agree with you that it needs to be specified as part of the JAX-RPC spec -- you should be able to selectively choose which parts of the SOAP processing model you want to use for each service and where you want to do the processing.
Anne
At 06:22 PM 4/5/2004, you wrote:
Anne,
Any idea if and/or when JAX-RPC will standardize this? So far it seems
like an Axis specific thing - has anyone seen it elsewhere? (Glue?
CapeClear?)
Would it not make sense to give the developer the choice of either using the XML <-> Java data binding facilities that a particular JAX-RPC implementation provides OR allow them to deal with the document directly? And let's not forget about JAX-RPC handlers either - I want to be able to use either use the data binding facilities or handle the document in either the client, handlers, or service implementation.
Your thoughts?
-Jon
-----Original Message----- From: Anne Thomas Manes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 05, 2004 1:07 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: What are the advantages of Message style web services?
If your application prefers to work with the information in it's native XML format, then you want to use the message style. For example, if your application simply wants to process one portion of a large document and then send it along in a workflow, it doesn't make sense to convert the entire document into Java objects, only to convert it back into the XML document again.
You also might want to use the message style for one-way or asynchronous processing.
Anne
At 04:00 PM 4/5/2004, you wrote: >Hi Axis Community, > Could anyone shed some light on real advantages of Axis Message Style >services compared to passing in and out complex beans? > >Any help will be deeply appreciated, >Ranjith Pillai.
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Anne Thomas Manes
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Burton Group
