Apache SOAP vs. Web Logic's SOAP???

[Dave Smith <da...@nbnet.nb.ca>]

With regard to the following newsgroup post, does anyone on the list have an opinion or experience in deploying a web service on both Apache's SOAP, and Weblogic's 6.1 SOAP api?

I found this on the weblogic.developer.interest.61beta.xml_and_webservices newsgroup.
I'm wondering about advantages or otherwise to using an Apache SOAP implementation over WL's SOAP.

Thanks,
Dave

http://groups.google.ca/groups?hl=en&threadm=3b20525e%241%40newsgroups.bea.com&rnum=2&prev=/groups%3Fq%3Dweblogic%2Bapache%2Bsoap%2Bwhich%2Bapi%26hl%3Den%26selm%3D3b20525e%25241%2540newsgroups.bea.com%26rnum%3D2

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Manoj/Micheal,
  
 Regarding using Apache SOAP vs Weblogic SOAP Here is what i Think:

WebLogic SOAP Implementation is far superior compared to Apache SOAP in regards
to Performance ,Ease of Use and Level of Maturity Shown during Developing.

1. I guess if you did some work with Apache SOAP Implementation you would definitely
love working with WLS SOAP implementation.
2. You can get started with WLS SOAP(Atleast compared to Apache SOAP version before
2.1 )when working with WebLogic in less time frame compared to APACHE SOAP.
3. Regarding MAturity of Product, some one would argue that APACHE SOAP implementation
is around for sometime. 
   But look at the following change in APACHE SOAP2.2 (released on May 30th):
  "Removed non-threadsafe private variables from Servlets"
   I guess Any one who ever worked with Servlets wouldn't make this mistake that
APACHE SOAP Implementation had for quite sometime.

Micheal, I don't work for BEA and this is from my experience with Both implementations.

Hope this helps you in making Right Decision.


Kumar.
Manoj Cheenath <ma...@bea.com> wrote:
>
>Michael wrote:
>
>> I am looking for an example of a client that builds and invokes a SOAP
>> message RPC-style and a server side object that receives this request,
>> processes it and returns a SOAP message to the client. I could not find any
>> API's either.
>
>pls check out: samples/examples/webservices/rpc example.
>
>> Also, what do I gain by using the Weblogic web services over Apache SOAP on
>> WL?
>
>among many other things:
>    - Performance
>    - small size
>    - dynamic client
>    - java to wsdl & wsdl to java
>    - message style invocation
>    - easy to expose stateless ejbs as web service
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