[Building Sakai] life after axis report

[Charles Severance]

John,

it would seem to me like a good idea to fast-track this branch into trunk before  Sakai-10.  Off by default via property would seem logical - but frankly there is no reason to keep it out given that it is 100% new functionality.

/Chuck

On Feb 11, 2014, at 5:17 PM, John Bush <jbush at anisakai.com> wrote:

> Sam and I spent the day bringing our axis services forward into CXF see:
> 
> https://source.sakaiproject.org/svn/webservices/branches/SAK-25678/cxf
> 
> https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAK-25678
> 
> Since it was so straightforward we went ahead and exposed everything
> as Rest along the way.  We need to do some more testing but we believe
> it should be as easy as pointing your client code to a new wsdl and
> maybe changing a few method names here and there (pretty isolated).
> The goal was to minimize the effect moving away from axis1 has on
> legacy client code.
> 
> JWS was fun but had a lot of limitations, hard to debug, no compile
> time checking, and it simply breaks a lot, in my experience anyway.
> We simply lifted and shifted the code and wired in some annotations,
> not too bad at all.
> 
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