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  1. JAX-RPC 2.0 renamed to JAX-WS 2.0 (6 messages)

    Doug Kohlert writes, in "JAX-RPC 2.0 renamed to JAX-WS 2.0," that JAX-RPC has been renamed to reflect a shift from "Java API for XML-Based RPC" to "Java API for XML-based Web Services," for three reasons:
    • The name was misleading. Developers were assuming that the "RPC" in JAX-RPC referred to XML-RPC, instead of Web Services.
    • The new name helps prevent JAX-RPC 1.x users from assuming that a migration to JAX-RPC 2.0 would be entirely seamless, as the new version has a number of fundamental changes in dependencies and bindings.
    • The new classification away from "JAX-RPC" removes the need for maintenance of legacy API classes, which makes the new development cleaner.
    What do you think? Are the reasons valid? Is such a name change well-advised? Does it clarify the purpose behind JAX-WS for you?
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  2. NOW it all makes sense[ Go to top ]

    Whosa-jigga-what?
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  3. JAX-RPC isn't only RPC[ Go to top ]

    Ever since JAX-RPC 1.1 isn't only RPC!
    JAX-WS is appropriate.

    Deivson Rayner
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  4. It never was about XML-RPC![ Go to top ]

    JAX-RPC has no, and never had, support for XML-RPC ( http://www.xmlrpc.org ). It always was a SOAP stack, and of course it still is. They incorporated various WS-* specifications (like WS-security) and rolled it all into the Web Services Developer Pack. TheServerSide gets more and more like Slashdot, please at least try to get the basic facts right. Thanks.
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  5. It never was about XML-RPC![ Go to top ]

    "JAX-RPC 2.0 (Java API for XML Based RPC)", this is quoted from the original blog.

    "XML based RPC" and XML-RPC, how close the names are before the renaming. No wonder theserverside made such a blunder.
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  6. JAX-RPC 2.0 renamed to JAX-WS 2.0[ Go to top ]

    I would encourage readers to read the content of the blog directly; there are a number of details that are different from the summary posted at the beginning of this thread (among others, there is no reference to XML-RPC in that blog)...

       - eduard/o
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  7. Javapedia[ Go to top ]

    I added JAX-WS to the Javapedia:

    http://wiki.java.net/bin/view/Javapedia/JAX-WS
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