You can definitely use Axis2 as part of your web services environments. Axis2 has perhaps not been tested with WCF as extensively as Metro, but it has gone through a lot of interoperability testing. That said, there are aspects of each web services stack that may not work as well as they should, especially when it comes to the complex WS-* extension technologies. You don't mention just what you're looking for in this area, but the WS-* technologies are where WSIT comes into use.
You can see my article at http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-jws19/index.html for a review of the state of WS-Security support in Axis2, CXF, and Metro (not quite up-to-date with the new Metro release, but fairly current). Other articles in the series (http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/views/java/libraryview.jsp?search_by=java+web+services:) discuss some of the different types of WS-Security configurations that you might want to use. - Dennis Dennis M. Sosnoski Java SOA and Web Services Consulting <http://www.sosnoski.com/consult.html> Axis2/CXF/Metro SOA and Web Services Training <http://www.sosnoski.com/training.html> Web Services Jump-Start <http://www.sosnoski.com/jumpstart.html> On 02/16/2011 10:08 PM, Stadelmann Josef wrote: > > Can a AXIS2 Web Service Server or an Axis2 web service client be setup > to be integrated into a szenario as given below; > > Pleas see also > _http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E17802_01/webservices/webservices/reference/tutorials/wsit/doc/_ > > *How WSIT Relates to Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) * > > Web services interoperability is an initiative of Sun and Microsoft. > The goal is to produce web services consumers and producers that > support platform independence, and then to test and deliver products > to market that interoperate across different platforms. > > WSIT is the product of Sun's web services interoperability initiative. > Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) is Microsoft's unified > programming model for building connected systems. WCF, which is now > available as part of the .NET Framework 3.0 product, includes > application programming interfaces (APIs) for building secure, > reliable, transacted web services that interoperate with non-Microsoft > platforms. > > In a joint effort, Sun Microsystems and Microsoft are testing WSIT > against WCF to ensure that Sun web service clients (consumers) and web > services (producers) do in fact interoperate with WCF web services > applications and vice versa. The testing will ensure that the > following interoperability goals are realized: > > · * WSIT web services clients can access and consume WCF web > services.**and Apache/Axis2 web services*** > > ********· * WCF web services clients** and Apache/Axis2 web > service clients** can access and consume WSIT web services.* > > Sun is building WSIT on the Java platform and Microsoft is building > WCF on the .NET 3.0 platform. The sections that follow describe the > web services specifications implemented by Sun Microsystems in Web > Services Interoperability Technologies (WSIT) and provide high-level > descriptions of how each WSIT technology works. > > The green bits is my whish list > > Josef.Stadelmann > > @axa-winterthur.ch >
