[Newbie] Axis vs GLUE vs WASP

[Takumi Fujiwara <tr...@yahoo.com>]

Hi,

I am a newbie in this subject.
Can someone please tell me what are the differences between Axis vs GLUE 
vs WASP?
my understanding is
- they are all  SOAP platform for java
- they all run in a servlet container
- they have tools to convert WSDL to Java

what are the difference? I know it Axis is free and open source, they 
other 2 aren't.
Anything else? e.g. performance? compatibility with other web service 
platform? etc etc
Can I develop my application using 1 platform and switch to others 
easily? assuming I just Java and stick with Standards (e.g. WSDL, SOAP)?

Thank for any feedback.

RE: [Newbie] Axis vs GLUE vs WASP

[Graham Glass <gr...@themindelectric.com>]

FYI 

GLUE Standard *is* free for most commercial uses, 
and is available from http://www.themindelectric.com. 

Cheers,
Graham

-----Original Message-----
From: Takumi Fujiwara [mailto:truenoto@yahoo.com] 
Sent: Monday, April 14, 2003 10:04 AM
To: axis-user@ws.apache.org
Subject: [Newbie] Axis vs GLUE vs WASP

Hi,

I am a newbie in this subject.
Can someone please tell me what are the differences between Axis vs GLUE 
vs WASP?
my understanding is
- they are all  SOAP platform for java
- they all run in a servlet container
- they have tools to convert WSDL to Java

what are the difference? I know it Axis is free and open source, they 
other 2 aren't.
Anything else? e.g. performance? compatibility with other web service 
platform? etc etc
Can I develop my application using 1 platform and switch to others 
easily? assuming I just Java and stick with Standards (e.g. WSDL, SOAP)?

Thank for any feedback.

RE: [Newbie] Axis vs GLUE vs WASP

[Anne Thomas Manes <an...@manes.net>]

Takumi-san,

Yes:
 - they are all SOAP platform for java
 - they all run in a servlet container
 - they have tools to convert WSDL to Java

Axis is an open source implementation.
GLUE and WASP are closed source. They are commercial products.
They offer superior tools, performance, and serialization frameworks than
Axis.
WASP provides superior management and security services.

Both WASP and GLUE also support standalone and embedded configurations (in
which case you don't need to deploy into a servlet container).

GLUE is available in two versions: Standard and Professional
- Standard is free for commercial use
- Professional costs money for both the development tool and the runtime.
GLUE provides a visual development tool that plugs into JBuilder.

WASP consists of two products: Developer and Server
- Developer is free for commercial use. It is a visual development tool that
plugs into popular IDEs (Eclipse, JBuilder, and NetBeans). You may use the
command line tools that come with Server instead, if you prefer.
- Server is free for development and free for deployment on a single-CPU
system. You must pay for a deployment license on systems with more than one
CPU.

Regards,
Anne

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Takumi Fujiwara [mailto:truenoto@yahoo.com]
> Sent: Monday, April 14, 2003 11:04 AM
> To: axis-user@ws.apache.org
> Subject: [Newbie] Axis vs GLUE vs WASP
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I am a newbie in this subject.
> Can someone please tell me what are the differences between Axis vs GLUE
> vs WASP?
> my understanding is
> - they are all  SOAP platform for java
> - they all run in a servlet container
> - they have tools to convert WSDL to Java
>
> what are the difference? I know it Axis is free and open source, they
> other 2 aren't.
> Anything else? e.g. performance? compatibility with other web service
> platform? etc etc
> Can I develop my application using 1 platform and switch to others
> easily? assuming I just Java and stick with Standards (e.g. WSDL, SOAP)?
>
> Thank for any feedback.
>
>