Re: WSIF - Is it dead?

[easter <ea...@free.fr>]

I can't speak for the entire package, but for what we use it for, it's 
very useful for instanciating web services dynmically.
What if, for example, your application needs a search service, but you 
only know at runtime which search service to use?
Or you want to automatically fail over to another search if your 
principal service fails?
The current axis implementation is limited to working with hard coded 
web services at the source code level (unless you do some
awesome code gymnastics), wsif provides  a way to generically invoke web 
services at runtime.

But I'm sure it has loads of other functionality I'm not using...


WH

Bahman Kalali wrote:

>I have been working on WSDL for long time but I have never used WSIF.
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>Can anyone tell me what is WSIF? and what is the relation between WSDL and
>WSIF?
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>Thank you very much in advance for your advice,
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>--Bahman
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>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Pae Choi" <pa...@earthlink.net>
>To: <ax...@xml.apache.org>
>Sent: Friday, November 29, 2002 5:41 PM
>Subject: Re: WSIF - Is it dead?
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>>That's a strong viewpoint from an IBMer. Maybe that's because
>>the package came from IBM, perhaps?
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>>I can count you as one user, but not buying the expression "Lots."
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>>Any comments? So I can increase the counter, two, three, ... :-)
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>>pae
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>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: "Anthony Elder" <an...@uk.ibm.com>
>>To: <ax...@xml.apache.org>
>>Sent: Friday, November 29, 2002 12:27 PM
>>Subject: Re: WSIF - Is it dead?
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>>>No WSIF isn't dead! Lots of people are using it.
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>>>Probably the biggest most recent example is the quite high profile it
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>>>in the announcement of IBM's latest version of WebSphere this week, see:
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>http://www.aspnews.com/strategies/companies/article/0,2350,10576_1547561,00.
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>>html
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>http://www.ibm.com/software/info1/websphere/index.jsp?tab=news/ibmnews/pr112
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>>502&S_TACT=102BBW01&S_CMP=campaign
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>>>I think one of the reasons WSIF doesn't get many questions on the AXIS
>>>lists is that people still seem to use the old alphaWorks discussion
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>>>(http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/forum/wsif.nsf) for questions. I've asked
>>>alphaWorks to update the WSIF page to point to Apache but it hasn't
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>happen
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>>>yet.
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>>>I encourage you to keep on using it, as far as I know there is nothing
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>>>available that has similar functionality.
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>>>       ...ant
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>>>Anthony Elder
>>>ant.elder@uk.ibm.com
>>>Web Services Development
>>>IBM UK Laboratories,  Hursley Park
>>>(+44) 01962 818320, x248320, MP208.
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>>>easter <ea...@free.fr> on 29/11/2002 16:26:42
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>>>Please respond to axis-dev@xml.apache.org
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>>>To:    axis-dev@xml.apache.org
>>>cc:
>>>Subject:    WSIF - Is it dead?
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>>>I've noticed since my subscription to this list, that no-one at all
>>>seems to use WSIF, or (less likely) it's too well documented and
>>>bug-free to warrant any
>>>mailing list discussions.
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>>>Is there something else I should be using instead? Is it going to go
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>away?
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>>>I've found nothing else which allows me to generically and dynamically
>>>connect 2 web services together using nothing
>>>more than their WSDL descriptions.
>>>I feel since I seem to be the only one on the planet to do this, perhaps
>>>I'm doing something wrong?
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>>>Cheers.
>>>WH
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