Axis 1.1 and WS-Interoperability
Hi everybody,
Just had a quick question. Will Axis 1.1 respect WS-I basic profile?
only if it respects us :)
Axis 1.1 will *not* respect the profile, and you cannot expect it to as it is (a) a draft and (b) not an official standard by a standards body like the IETF or the W3C. Nor, until there is a test suite, can compliance be tested and asserted with any rigour.
Future versions of Axis will fully support SOAP1.2, and no doubt strive to come close to WS-I basic, but if you want 100% compliance then you will have to roll up your sleeves and contribute code.
Axis people do look at the spec, and we also discuss things on SoapBuilders. The latter is where interop is forged.
WS-I basic is, well, political: someone dictates that doc/lit is the future, that WS-Attachments (DIME not SwA) is the way to attach files, without the same open membership and voting that the W3C offers. So wherever W3C specs and WS-I specs come in to conflict, to date, we follow the W3C.
-steve
