Brian, are you handling HIPAA data? Then I would forget about the simple frontend. It's not intended for that.
For good, rigorous coding of Privacy Act/HIPAA data, you should be starting with WSDL-first development.[1][2] That will give you the needed experience later when you need to implement security. Don't want to start with WSDL though? OK, then do JAX-WS Java-first with annotations. It really isn't that much harder than the simple frontend. Doing either of the above also helps portability--you can switch much more quickly to Metro (or Axis2, to an extent) if you need to for whatever reason. But just shoving a bunch of unannotated classes to CXF and hoping it will choose the right methods to expose and the right ones not to does not sound very secure. I don't need to tell you that. Regards, Glen [1] http://www.jroller.com/gmazza/date/20071019 [2] http://www.javapassion.com/handsonlabs/wswsdl/ Am Montag, den 29.10.2007, 15:25 -0600 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > 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 > >
