CXF 2.7.7 question: Java 7 support and .NET 4.0 interoperability?

[Susan Liebeskind <su...@gtri.gatech.edu>]

Hi,

I am looking for definitive answers about Java 7 support and .NET 
interoperability for the CXF 2.7.7 release. Unfortunately, my searches 
for answers are not finding anything that *clearly* states these 
technologies are supported.  Hoping someone on the CXF universe can give 
me some feedback....
--
Current Setup: Metro 2.2

My web services are currently running on a Metro 2.2 stack, and deployed 
in Tomcat 6.
I'm currently using OpenJDK7 on a RHEL6 platform
My services use WS-Security.
I receive requests from clients on Metro 1.x , .NET 3.0 and .NET 4.0 
platforms.

Future...and I'd like to switch to CXF for these:

Adding new web services that will use WS-Trust and possibly 
WS-SecureConversation
Tomcat 7 is coming soon.
.NET 4.5 also coming soon.

----
Thing is, I cannot find definite answers about Java 7 or .NET 
interoperability

re: java 7
I've looked at the FAQs and for JDK 1.7, it says "TBD." Is that just out 
of date, and Java 7 is supported? Given that Java 6 is EOL, I would 
assume so, but I don't want to presume. The samples run fine, but I 
haven't tried to port my web services over to CXF. I'd like to hear this 
is a supported setup before I take time to do that...

re: .NET
FAQ says nothing. User Guide says nothing. The samples directory 
contains a skeletal  directory called ws-security/interopfest. Looking 
through the email archives, there used to be something in that 
interopfest directory, but a Microsoft resource for interop testing 
seems to have gone away a while ago, so the directory was purged.
Have there been any .NET interoperability testing done lately? Maybe I 
am just not looking in the right place?

Thanks in advance for any response.

Susan

Re: CXF 2.7.7 question: Java 7 support and .NET 4.0 interoperability?

[Dennis Sosnoski <dm...@sosnoski.com>]

Hi Susan,

It looks like Dan just updated the FAQ page on Java 7 support: 
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CXF/FAQ#

As far as .NET (WCF) interop, there's currently only one open Jira issue 
on this, and it's a minor one: 
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CXF-4046?jql=project%20%3D%20CXF%20AND%20status%20%3D%20Open%20AND%20text%20~%20%22wcf%22

There are some known past issues in the WS-ReliableMessaging support, 
which have hopefully been fixed but have not yet been tested with .Net 
(https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CXF-371). Aside from that, if you 
run into any problems you should ask the list for help and enter a Jira 
if it is a real issue.

   - Dennis

Dennis M. Sosnoski
Java SOA and Web Services Consulting <http://www.sosnoski.com/consult.html>
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On 10/12/2013 04:42 PM, Susan Liebeskind wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am looking for definitive answers about Java 7 support and .NET 
> interoperability for the CXF 2.7.7 release. Unfortunately, my searches 
> for answers are not finding anything that *clearly* states these 
> technologies are supported.  Hoping someone on the CXF universe can 
> give me some feedback....
> -- 
> Current Setup: Metro 2.2
>
> My web services are currently running on a Metro 2.2 stack, and 
> deployed in Tomcat 6.
> I'm currently using OpenJDK7 on a RHEL6 platform
> My services use WS-Security.
> I receive requests from clients on Metro 1.x , .NET 3.0 and .NET 4.0 
> platforms.
>
> Future...and I'd like to switch to CXF for these:
>
> Adding new web services that will use WS-Trust and possibly 
> WS-SecureConversation
> Tomcat 7 is coming soon.
> .NET 4.5 also coming soon.
>
> ----
> Thing is, I cannot find definite answers about Java 7 or .NET 
> interoperability
>
> re: java 7
> I've looked at the FAQs and for JDK 1.7, it says "TBD." Is that just 
> out of date, and Java 7 is supported? Given that Java 6 is EOL, I 
> would assume so, but I don't want to presume. The samples run fine, 
> but I haven't tried to port my web services over to CXF. I'd like to 
> hear this is a supported setup before I take time to do that...
>
> re: .NET
> FAQ says nothing. User Guide says nothing. The samples directory 
> contains a skeletal  directory called ws-security/interopfest. Looking 
> through the email archives, there used to be something in that 
> interopfest directory, but a Microsoft resource for interop testing 
> seems to have gone away a while ago, so the directory was purged.
> Have there been any .NET interoperability testing done lately? Maybe I 
> am just not looking in the right place?
>
> Thanks in advance for any response.
>
> Susan
>