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smp_86112
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Jan 06, 2010

JAX-RPC vs JAX-WS

I'm not a java programmer, so forgive me for butchering this...

Is there a version of iControl that allows a web service to make a call using JAX-WS (as opposed to JAX-RPC which appears to be depricated based on googling)? Connection attempts from web service clients using JAX-WS appear to fail with this message: 

java.lang.VerifyError: class loading constraint violated 
  (class: org/apache/axis/MessageContext 
  method: getMessage()Ljavax/xml/soap/SOAPMessage)
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  • Joe_Pruitt's avatar
    Joe_Pruitt
    Jan 06, 2010
    iControl was implemented as an RPC/Encoded web service back in 2001 before doc/lit was a preferred method. Back then, SOAP::Lite in perl only supported rpc/enc and that was the language that the majority of our customers were working in. A few years later the WSI was formed and ultimately decided that doc/lit was the way to go but by then we were too deep into rpc/enc.

     

     

    We have only had a couple of requests over the years for doc/lit support and it just isn't enough to justify the cost to migrate the 3000+ methods in our API.

     

     

    I haven't used JAX-WS but I do know that Axis v1 still works and the distribution jars are in the iControl library download for java if that helps...

     

     

    If you feel a strong need to move to doc/lit, then I'd suggest you get a feature enhancement request into support. The more of those that come in may bump that up to get into a future release.

     

     

    -Joe
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    smp_86112
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    Jan 07, 2010
    Thanks Joe, I'm relieved that at least I was able to state this in a way someone could understand.

     

     

    We are meeting with F5 tomorrow to formally request this feature. How would you state our requirement, for maximum clarity and effectiveness?
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    Joe_Pruitt
    Jan 11, 2010
    I would state that you request that our iControl interfaces support both rpc/enc and doc/lit encoding methods since rpc/enc is not supported in some of the newer java frameworks.

     

     

    -Joe