The missing piece is that somehow Axis2 needs to be able to translate between XML (the Soap or Rest message on the wire) and Java classes (in your application). This is known as data binding, and consists of code to marshall and unmarshall the XML data. This code usually gets generated (in one way or another) and needs to be incorporated into your application.
Look at this article, which explains the three available choices in detail: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/webservices/library/ws-java3/. The summary at the end of the article is a good starting point for making a choice between the frameworks. We have had great success with JiBX. We originally used ADB, but switched to JiBX for performance and flexibility. ________________________________ From: Hehl, Thomas [mailto:thomas.h...@acs-inc.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2010 10:27 AM To: java-user@axis.apache.org Subject: I don't get it 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 ________________________________ STATEMENT OF CONFIDENTIALITY: The information contained in this electronic message and any attachments to this message are intended for the exclusive use of the addressee(s) and may contain confidential or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify WHI Solutions immediately at g...@whisolutions.com, and destroy all copies of this message and any attachments.
