-- Frank W. Zammetti Founder and Chief Software Architect Omnytex Technologies http://www.omnytex.com
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Most importantly though is that you can still use what Struts gives you, things like form validation and internationalization, plus some degree of the control layer, depending on how your app is designed. I think with
Axis,
you would have to either write some code to duplicate these things, or have duplicate code in two apps.
Validation is a key point to consider. Struts gives you a nice declarative validation system for checking required fields, min/max length and value, etc. Many of these common field checks can also be expressed as part of an XML schema, and therefore by definition could be part of a WSDL document. But if you do things the "right" way (Struts actions and SOAP services both call a common business layer) you don't get a single point of argument validation easily.
Ideally, between the new versions of JAXB and JAX-RPC, there will be some way to have metadata for validation constraints attached to individual bean properties (for example @argument.notNull, @argument.string maxLength="40") which can be used for both WSDL generation *and* for Struts form validation--and even Javadocs, potentially.
-- Bill
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