[Building Sakai] life after axis

[Steve Swinsburg]

Hi John,

Interesting idea and support this to modernise the code. However what is
the issue that people are having when working with the axis 1.4 services?

cheers,
Steve


On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 4:57 AM, John Bush <jbush at anisakai.com> wrote:

> There was discussion at Apereo camp about issues people are having
> issues with the old axis 1.4 soap services, and it sounds like we are
> not the only ones.  While REST is definitely the preferred integration
> approach for anything new, a lot of people have legacy client code
> that relies on the axis services.
>
> This is the plan I've been floating around in my head and have done a
> little research into.
>
> We create a new webapp that uses cxf.  CXF can generate stubs from
> wsdls.  So basically we take our existing wsdls, generate most of the
> code, and then its a copy and paste affair from jws files to new
> structure.  Wire in spring dependencies and bam you are done.
>
> The one issue is that you can't overload method names any more, I'm
> assuming maybe that is part of a newer soap spec, but I'm not sure
> there is anyway around that.  SakaiScript has a bunch of overloaded
> method names that will need new names, but I'm guessing that would not
> cause people too much pain to simply update in client code.
>
> I'm not going to put any energy into attempting to keep the same url
> structure, as I think in cases where people have a hard time switching
> over they could put rules in Apache or other things that front Sakai
> to redirect to the new paths.
>
> So axis will still be there in Sakai 11, but for those that what to
> move onto something more stable and not from 2006 they can.
>
> Any thoughts on this approach before I get started ?
>
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