Jeff Corliss wrote: > > Actually, this brings up another question I have... > > When the JAX pack stuff becomes final, will there > still be a need for a separate SOAP "implementation", > or will Apache SOAP (or Axis) be the reference > implementation and be included with it?
I believe that the JAX pack stuff is merely meant to provide interfaces that underlying implementations are to implement. For example, JAXP is an interface that you can use to interface with Xerces and Xalan. The owner of the reference implementation for JAX RPC is Sun. They certainly are welcome to include Apache code in the RI they produce. They already include Xalan in JAXP 1.1. I hear that future versions will be based on Xerces 2. - Sam Ruby
