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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...
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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