This is my first time with Web services. I have to develop web services in java which should be having good WS-* standards, should loosely-coupled, scalable, highly secure, fast response time. I know I've to consider trade-offs. I have checked on some frameworks like Axis2, CXF, Spring WS. Please share your experiences and views on these frameworks and other frameworks, which will help me in deciding which one to go to.
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I'm a Spring user, so I'm doing it with Spring WS 1.5.5. Very nice, especially using annotations.
duffymo
2009-01-09 15:36:57
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I found axis2 a bit cumbersome (try google on "axis2 problems") luckily my organization has decided to go with the REST approach instead of WS-*.
LiorH
2009-01-09 15:50:23
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I would also recommend taking a look at JAX-WS 2.0. It is also easy to use with very little configuration and annotations. Mark Hansen's book does a good job explaining SOA using jax-ws.
neesh
2009-01-09 16:56:13
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Metro is the JAX-WS reference implementation with support for various WS-* specification. I find it easy to understand and use. It provides interoperability with the Microsoft .NET WCF stack and integration with Spring, Netbeans, Maven2 and ant.
Metro is fully supported on Glassfish and both can be installed together easily with the latest Glassfish v3 prelude (commercial support available from Sun).
The Metro's homepage reference a web services stack comparison at the Apache WS Wiki.
mongolito404
2009-01-10 15:01:31