Thanks for your feedback Jonathan; hopefully you get a chance to use CXF in the future when things have improved a bit.
On 23/01/2008, jonathan doklovic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The point being that since this is a users list (not a dev list) I > thought I'd share my user experience in hopes that it could help the > future of the project. > > If all anyone hears about a project is how great it is and never hears > why people choose not to use it, then it never progresses. > > I was never able to get CXF working properly simply because of the lack > of simple docs and end-to-end examples. Maybe it's just that I don't > get it or something, but I feel there are probably a lot of "me's" out > there that struggle with getting things up and running. > > - Jonathan > > On Wed, 2008-01-23 at 14:47 +0000, Sergey Beryozkin wrote: > > > After spending about 2 weeks trying to get a very simple service to > > > return JSON in CXF, I found the Glassfish Metro project and it's > > > jaxws-json plugin. > > > > What's the point of this post ? Say to the world that you're not > > happpy with CXF ? > > Or tell everyone that you could've commited a patch after spending 2 > > days on it but just didn't get enough time :-) ? > > > > Cheers, Sergey > > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "jonathan doklovic" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: "cxfuser" <[email protected]> > > Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2008 2:37 PM > > Subject: Leaving CXF for Glasshfish Metro > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > After spending about 2 weeks trying to get a very simple service to > > > return JSON in CXF, I found the Glassfish Metro project and it's > > > jaxws-json plugin. > > > > > > I gave it a shot and after 2 hours had my service up and running. > > > Not only that, but the plugin generates pretty api docs at the > > endpoint > > > for me as well as generates a javascript client on the fly. > > > > > > It was just too easy to make me stick with CXF. > > > > > > I think CXF is probably a good framework, but the docs and examples > > are > > > in pieces and without real life end-to-end tutorials, it's really > > hard > > > to get things working. > > > > > > - Jonathan > > ---------------------------- > > IONA Technologies PLC (registered in Ireland) > > Registered Number: 171387 > > Registered Address: The IONA Building, Shelbourne Road, Dublin 4, Ireland > > -- James ------- http://macstrac.blogspot.com/ Open Source Integration http://open.iona.com
