In the next 2 to 3 months.
Ryan LeCompte wrote:
>Doug,
>
>Thanks for the speedy response. I'll definitely take a look at the PFD and
>let you know if I have any questions. Do you know when the JAX-WS will be
>FCS?
>
>Thanks,
>Ryan
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Doug Kohlert [mailto:Doug.Kohlert_at_Sun.COM]
>Sent: Monday, October 24, 2005 3:09 PM
>To: users_at_jax-rpc.dev.java.net
>Subject: Re: JAX-WS: Any help with web services versioning and DII?
>
>Ryan,
>JAX-WS does help with versioning slightly in that it uses JAXB for its
>databinding. JAXB by default
>is permissive when parsing XML instances in that if it sees an element
>or an attribute that it was
>not expecting, it will not blow up and I believe it saves the
>information somewhere so that the
>endpoint can get at the data if needed. As for DII, DII has been
>replaced with a much more
>powerful Dispatch interface in JAX-WS. With the Dispatch interface you
>can have access
>to the entire MESSAGE or just the PAYLOAD using a Source object. You
>can also use the
>Dispatch interface with JAXB objects. There is also a server side
>equivalent of the Dispatch
>interface called Provider. You can download the JAX-WS 2.0 PFD,
>JavaDocs and API sources
>at: https://jax-rpc.dev.java.net/jax-ws/spec-download.html. You can
>dowload the week RI bundle
>at:
>https://jax-rpc.dev.java.net/servlets/ProjectDocumentList?folderID=1182&expa
>ndFolder=1182&folderID=0
>
>Ryan LeCompte wrote:
>
>
>
>>Hello all,
>>
>>
>>
>>I know that currently JAX-RPC doesn't really provide any assistance
>>with the concept of versioning web services. One of the issues that
>>we've had to deal with is maintaining multiple versions of web
>>services (ultimately multiple versions of WSDL's). Since the current
>>version of DII in JAX-RPC doesn't work well with custom data types,
>>we've gone with a static stub approach for our web services. When we
>>version our web services, we end up having different versions of the
>>generated static stubs and related files. It is fairly cumbersome to
>>deal with different versions of these generated artifacts. I was
>>wondering if the latest version of JAX-RPC (JAX-WS) has any plans to
>>specifically address the versioning problem with web services? Also,
>>has DII been enhanced in JAX-WS so that it can deal with complex data
>>types? It seems like if we could use the DII approach, we wouldn't
>>have to deal with any versioned generated artifacts, correct? Is there
>>any main benefit of upgrading to JAX-WS when it's available? Any
>>advice is appreciated.
>>
>>
>>
>>Thanks,
>>
>>Ryan
>>
>>
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- Doug