Brian, To specifically answer the question:
The simple frontend addresses a lot of use cases that a pure JAX-WS implementation cannot address. Thus, there really is no chance that the simple frontend will be dropped. Likewise Aegis addresses a lot of use cases that JAXB cannot. (like Maps) Thus, it's not likely to be dropped. Actually on the databinding front, we have plans to support other databindings like jibx and xmlbeans as there are use cases for those as well. That all said, for the most part, we want to promote the use of the standards (JAX-WS/JAXB) as much as possible. Code written to those API's should be fairly portable. Also, in a way, it's easier to document as there are books and stuff written on those topics. Dan On Monday 29 October 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 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 -- J. Daniel Kulp Principal Engineer IONA P: 781-902-8727 C: 508-380-7194 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dankulp.com/blog
