Apache SOAP VS Apache AXIS

[Calicrates Policroniades <Ca...@cl.cam.ac.uk>]

Hi,

I'm at the beginning of a software project in which I'm planning to include 
support for SOAP messages in an application with intensive typed data 
interchange. I've been reading the FAQs and documentation available and all of 
them seem to be quiet sympathetic with apache soap's follow-on project Apache 
AXIS. I understand the why of this in general terms, but I was wondering if 
someone with more experience than me (I'm a newbie to be honest) can still 
find advantages in using apache SOAP and not axis.

Thanks,
Cali 

Re: Apache SOAP VS Apache AXIS

[Scott Nichol <sn...@scottnichol.com>]

If you do not have existing Apache SOAP code, you should definitely use Axis.  Here are some reasons.

1. The Apache SOAP project has almost no active development, and has not had a new release in years.

2. Axis supports more web services specifications and intends to implement new ones as they come up.  Right now, the most important of the implemented specifications is WSDL 1.1, which is critical to smooth interoperability.  It also implements JAX-RPC, meaning other Java implementations supporting that spec can be interchanged with it, DIME, which makes its attachments interoperable with Microsoft, and HTTP 1.1.

3. As partially covered in point 2, Axis has more extensive interoperability with other SOAP implementations.

Scott Nichol

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Calicrates Policroniades" <Ca...@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: <so...@ws.apache.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2004 10:54 AM
Subject: Apache SOAP VS Apache AXIS



Hi,

I'm at the beginning of a software project in which I'm planning to include 
support for SOAP messages in an application with intensive typed data 
interchange. I've been reading the FAQs and documentation available and all of 
them seem to be quiet sympathetic with apache soap's follow-on project Apache 
AXIS. I understand the why of this in general terms, but I was wondering if 
someone with more experience than me (I'm a newbie to be honest) can still 
find advantages in using apache SOAP and not axis.

Thanks,
Cali