I am trying to build a client to a web-service using their
vendor-supplied WSDL. The vendor-recommended approach is to use Maven
with their pom.xml.
building the source code brings in something like 50 jars. Only three
appear to be needed for compilation, but at runtime, I am adding jar
after jar to get my code over each succeeding hurdle.
Is this really the way software is developed now? Call me old
fashioned, but I like to know what I'm depending on. It shouldn't
require 50 jars to run a simple SOAP client. What is the thinking
behind this? Must I bite the bullet, load all this crap, and stop
thinking about it?
