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Re: Hosting Maven WSDL builder plug-in at JAX-WS commons?

From: Jitendra Kotamraju <Jitendra.Kotamraju_at_Sun.COM>
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2009 10:45:56 -0700

Gunnar Morling wrote:
> Hello *,
>
> a while ago a friend of mine and me published a Maven plugin, which
> creates the WSDL file for a web service by examing the service's XML
> schema. The project can be found here:
>
> http://code.google.com/p/maven-instant-ws/
>
> Basically the idea is, that the information about a service's
> interface is already part of the XML schema, while the WSDL is a
> rather technical representation of that same information. The
> mechanism relies on naming conventions: if for instance there is an
> XML schema file myservice.xml containing the two schema types
> MyOperationRequest and MyOperationResponse, the WSDL file
> myservice.wsdl comprising the operation MyOperation will be created.
>
> So the plugin makes the tedious process of writing WSDL files by hand
> obsolete, leaving more time for crafting the actual message types.
> Surely not all corner cases are considered, but the plug-in should be
> useful in the most standard cases.
>
> So we were wondering, whether the Maven WSDL builder plug-in might be
> hosted at JAX-WS commons to allow for more users learning about and
> using it?
That would be good idea. I will give the commit access to
jax-ws-commons. Can you send your java.net id.

thanks,
Jitu
>
> Thanks for any comments,
>
> Gunnar
>
>
>