AXIS2/C, gSOAP


I wouldn't want HP/VMS to have the excuse to delay Axis2/C any longer due to
some half-arsed amateur hour effort.

Personally, I'd much prefer the Axis2/C port to live with the Axis2/JAVA
team. (If such a team exists obviously)

Regards Richard Maher

From what I have observed, the two HP employees responsible for doing
the port to OpenVMS are not amateurs. In case you lost some data from
the original message, the offer to "do our own port of AXIS2/c" was
made by one of them.

I agree with you that whomever is responsible for maintaining the port
of "AXIS2/Java" at HP should also be responsible for porting/
maintaining "AXIS2/c" since there are probably more similarities than
differences. But the two guys supporting gSOAP (we need to give them
an unofficial name) told me that their method of "porting first, then
building a groundswell of public popularity" could get new products on
the officially supported HP list much faster.

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Is "AXIS2/Java" junk? No. It is wonderful "as an educational tool" as
well as "a web-services prototyping tool". I might even use it for a
low volume interface but "AXIS2/c" is reputed to be an order of
magnitude faster. I have always believed that any computing platform
is a strong as its weakest member so I just can't bring myself to use
Java or "AXIS2/Java" in a high volume production environment. At least
not yet.

Since I am currently running both "AXIS/Java" and "AXIS2/Java" from
the same Tomcat, I can only assume that "AXIS2/c" will also coexist
with its cousins.

Neil
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