Hi, I'm taking a look at web service frameworks. I've played with Sun's impl of JAX-WS. I've played with (and rejected) Axis2. I'm about to play with CFX, I've browsed through the docs, but had a question that I could not find explicitly discussed. Is the "simple" model here to stay?
Perhaps my question is addressed somewhere and I've just blown past it. Much of the documentation seems to center around the JAX-WS front end and relatively little is written about the simple front end. Perhaps because it is so... simple? ;-) One reason I am interested in CFX is because of the simple model it supports. We do need to support standards, but in some cases we would like to turn existing non-trivial code into web services as easily as possible. Not having to annotate would be a good thing for a couple of reasons. If we were interested in CFX in part because of the simple model, are we "safe" going with CFX? In other words, are the simple model and the Aegis data binding (which we liked when we looked into it) going to be around for the long haul, or will CFX evolve into a (good) JAX-WS impl while dropping support for simple/Aegis? Thanks for consideration of my "newbie" question! Brian Brian D. Horblit Senior Principal Engineer Thomson Healthcare
