OK, I've used Axis once before briefly and now I'm trying to use Axis2. The problem I'm having is that the documents don't appear to be written for me. I need some advice on how to proceed.
My situation is that after building a web application, it turns out that we need to have heterogeneous clients accessing our application. No problem, I thought, because I created a services layer behind the controller. I can use axis2 to generate a WSDL for my services layer and expose the API that way to the other clients that need to access it and our controllers as well. My intent had been simply to run java2wsdl on the classes in my services jar, then wsdl2java on the resulting wsdl to build the client. Then I'd patch these pieces together and let the web services do the communication. As I'm reading through the documentation, though, it talks a lot about ADB and JiBX and AXIOM and XML beans, but doesn't appear to explain any of them. Evidently, I'm supposed to know which of these I'm using before selecting Axis2 as a tool. So now I'm sort of stuck. Will someone kindly take a moment and shine a little light, please? Thom Hehl Senior Development Specialist Public Safety & Justice Affiliated Computer Services, Inc. A Xerox Company 1733 Harrodsburg Road Lexington, KY 40504-3617 Tel 859.277.8800 x 144 Fax 859.277.2300
