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Do you know if Axis 1.x can generate document/literal or only 
rpc/encoded? I am wondering if setting
the OPERATION_STYLE_PROPERTY to document would do the trick.

Benson Margulies wrote:
> Demetris,
>
> If your place has a big investment in RPC/encoded, perhaps one of you
> would like to pick up the project that one of our committers started
> of adding RPC/encoded support to CXF. If you do it, you get to ensure
> that it works with your services :-). I'd be happy to mentor someone
> in figuring out where Dain left off.
>
> --benson
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 4:21 PM, Demetris<demetris@ece.neu.edu> wrote:
>   
>> Of course I do see infrastructures here in production still using Axis 1.x
>> without any plans on
>> migrating while other systems come into play with Axis 2 etc. and
>> interoperability between the
>> two sides is impossible - and of course the rest of us will need to sit in
>> between and needing to
>> do our own translations - not good.
>> In any case, CFX is a pretty impressive project so I have a feeling I will
>> be adapting it to my
>> work.
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Daniel Kulp wrote:
>>     
>>> On Tue August 11 2009 12:15:40 pm Demetris wrote:
>>>
>>>       
>>>> That's what I figured ;) Thanks  for the info Benson.
>>>>
>>>> Now regarding inteconnection of Web Services across implementations, if
>>>> there is no bridge
>>>> between the old RPC/encoded and CFX, at least I am assuming that newer
>>>> versions would
>>>> be able to handle SOAP calls across them or not? This is something I
>>>> never tried/looked into
>>>> while I worked exclusively with Axis so I was wondering.
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> Pretty much none of the modern SOAP toolkits support RPC/encoded.   Axis2
>>> doesn't.  CXF doesn't.  Metro/JAX-WS RI doesn't.  Etc....    Basically,
>>> rpc/encoded was such an interopability nightmare that it really fell into
>>> the bucket of "You REALLY REALLY don't want to use it."    If you want
>>> interopability, you really need to migrate to one of the literal forms.
>>>
>>> Dan
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>       
>>>> Benson Margulies wrote:
>>>>
>>>>         
>>>>> OK, that message is buried in the substrate somewhere. I'm not sure
>>>>> that I agree with it :-) In practical terms, we just don't have the
>>>>> code or RPC/encoded.
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm unaware of anything you can use to interconnect an old Axis
>>>>> RPC/encoded service with CXF.
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 11:00 PM, Demetris<demetris@ece.neu.edu> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>           
>>>>>> Hi Benson,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> the reason I mentioned JAX-WS is because a WSDL file that I passed to
>>>>>> WSDL2JS returned
>>>>>> "RCP/encoded WSDLs are not supported in JAX-2.0". I had a feeling it is
>>>>>> "neither here nor
>>>>>> there" but I wanted to double-check - I think I know what the issue is
>>>>>> now after reading the
>>>>>> corresponding documentation but I will return and send more info if I
>>>>>> cannot resolve it.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> A separate question - is there a "bridge" between Axis WS and its tools
>>>>>> and CFX? Can an Axis
>>>>>> WS client call a CFX-implemented WS and vice versa or not?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Benson Margulies wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>             
>>>>>>> Demetris,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> CXF includes the ability to build Soap 1.1 Javascript clients for
>>>>>>> doc/lit and rpc/lit services. JAX-WS is relatively neither here nor
>>>>>>> there.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The code can be run in two modes. You can run the tool as a
>>>>>>> standalone, and you get Javascript that (with the utility file
>>>>>>> supplied) will run anywhere that has a compatible request object. Or,
>>>>>>> you can ask any CXF-implemented web service to deliver a javascript
>>>>>>> client, and one will be returned.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Have you read
>>>>>>> http://cwiki.apache.org/CXF20DOC/javascript-clients.html?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> --benson
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 5:40 PM, Demetris<demetris@ece.neu.edu> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>               
>>>>>>>> And one more observation - because wsdl2js utilizes JAX-WS 2.0,
>>>>>>>> RPC/Encoded
>>>>>>>> documents are not supported. Is that correct?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Thanks again
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Demetris wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>                 
>>>>>>>>> Ok now that I played a bit with wsdl2js I am beginning to understand
>>>>>>>>> what
>>>>>>>>> you said below.
>>>>>>>>> So one can use the wsdlurl in order to get the server to return the
>>>>>>>>> script
>>>>>>>>> - can you please
>>>>>>>>> clarify a few things since I am new to this -
>>>>>>>>> 1. what kind of server are we talking about in this case?
>>>>>>>>> 2. The only way to generate the Javascript is through a remote
>>>>>>>>> server
>>>>>>>>> + URL? If I have the WSDL
>>>>>>>>> in my possesion how can I use this tool to generate the script of
>>>>>>>>> me?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Thanks again
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Benson Margulies wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>                   
>>>>>>>>>> The tool is part of CXF, so it requires Java 1.5. Since its output
>>>>>>>>>> is Javascript, I don't understand why you need to run it under
>>>>>>>>>> J2ME.
>>>>>>>>>> In fact, you can just use the ?js URL form from the server to get
>>>>>>>>>> the server to generate it on the fly.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 2:32 PM, Demetris<demetris@ece.neu.edu>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>                     
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>       
>>>>>>>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>  I am interested in generating Javascript stubs from a WSDL file -
>>>>>>>>>>> I am
>>>>>>>>>>> assuming that the WSDL2js tool is the
>>>>>>>>>>> appropriate tool to use. Has anyone used this tool so that I can
>>>>>>>>>>> ask a couple of Qs?
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> (1) Which Java version is the tool built on?
>>>>>>>>>>> (2) Can I used it under J2ME-CDC to generate stubs for mobile
>>>>>>>>>>> devices?
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Thanks in advanced
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>                       
>>>       
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