RE: WS Implementation Question

sorry Mike, our emails crossed in the ether, either that, this list is so empty there is an echo in here :-)
 

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From: www-ws-arch-request@w3.org [mailto:www-ws-arch-request@w3.org]On Behalf Of Champion, Mike
Sent: 05 May 2004 15:39
To: Cutler, Roger (RogerCutler); www-ws-arch@w3.org
Subject: RE: WS Implementation Question


 


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From: Cutler, Roger (RogerCutler) [mailto:RogerCutler@chevrontexaco.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2004 9:49 AM
To: www-ws-arch@w3.org
Subject: WS Implementation Question





Can someone point me to some sort of development environment or libraries likely to be available in this copntext that are a little higher level -- so, for example, someone else has figured out how to conform to WS-I?  

 

Hi Roger,

My guess (as a person who tries to understand all this, not as a user) would be that the developer should look at Apache Axis - http://ws.apache.org/axis/  

"Axis is essentially a SOAP engine -- a framework for constructing SOAP processors such as clients, servers, gateways, etc. The current version of Axis is written in Java, but a C++ implementation of the client side of Axis is being developed.

But Axis isn't just a SOAP engine -- it also includes:

*	a simple stand-alone server, 

*	a server which plugs into servlet engines such as Tomcat, 

*	extensive support for the Web Service Description Language (WSDL), 

*	emitter tooling that generates Java classes from WSDL. 

*	some sample programs, and 

*	a tool for monitoring TCP/IP packets." 

Easier WS-I support seems to be promised in the v 1.2, currently in alpha.
 
Of course, with the price of gas these days you folks should be able to afford a commercial WS development environment, eh :-)