On Wednesday 10 October 2007, David W Sica wrote: > If JDK6 includes jaxws and jaxb jars what do I gain by using CXF over > just JDK6? If I do decide to use JDK6, can I get more details > regarding your response below on copying stuff to jre/lib?
Well, CXF supports a lot of things the JAX-WS implemention in JDK 6 does not. Things like jms transports, advanced https configuration, Spring configuration, WS-A, WS-RM, etc.... Let me clear about one thing: CXF 2.0.x should work perfectly fine with JDK6. The api jars and such that we ship are the same version as those built into JDK6. The problem will be with CXF 2.1 which is our current development mainline. For 2.1, we are targetting JAX-WS 2.1 which is newer than what's in JDK6. To use the 2.1 snapshots, you'd most likely need to copy the jaxb-* and jaxws-api-* jars (and maybe stax-api*) from our lib directory to the jre/lib/endorsed dir. I'm not 100% sure as I haven't tested it yet. At this point, I'm mostly working on fixes and stuff still targetting 2.0.3 which should work fine for JDK6. (although I don't have JDK6 installed to really test with yet) Dan > Thanks, > David > > On 10/4/07, Daniel Kulp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Also, should I > > > pursue using JDK6 for deployment? Do I gain anything with JDK6 as > > > far as CXF is concerned? > > > > I would not use jdk6 for right now. JDK6 is definitely going to > > cause us problems on trunk. jk6 includes older versions of the > > jaxws and jaxb jars which may conflict with the ones we require. > > Thus, to work with jdk6, some stuff may need to be copied from our > > lib dir to the jre/lib dir. We haven't spent much time > > investigating that yet as trunk is still moving/changing pretty > > fast. 2.0.2 SHOULD work OK with Java 6. It's mostly the new > > stuff on trunk that will be a problem. > > > > > > -- > > J. Daniel Kulp -- J. Daniel Kulp Principal Engineer IONA P: 781-902-8727 C: 508-380-7194 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dankulp.com/blog
