Re: [wtp-dev] Axis2 Eclipse Plugin

[Arthur Ryman <ryman@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Sanjiva,

Great. I don't see Ajith's email address,
pls resend. 

Chris Brealey is the WTP component lead
for the Web service wizards. Chris - pls contact Ajith.

Arthur Ryman,
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Sanjiva Weerawarana <sanjiva@xxxxxxxx>

09/28/2005 06:56 PM

To	Arthur Ryman/Toronto/IBM@IBMCA
cc	"General discussion of project-wide or architectural issues." <wtp-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>, wtp-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject	Re: [wtp-dev] Axis2 Eclipse Plugin

Hi Arthur,

Yes absolutely- Ajith Ranabahu is the main author (cc'ed). Please let us
know what needs to be done to getting it integrated to WTP and we'll work
on the details.

Thanks,

Sanjiva.

Arthur Ryman wrote:
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> Chris,
> 
> Thx.
> 
> Sanjiva, the wizards look like a good starting point. Would the author
> of these plugins be available to work with us on integrating these
with 
> WTP?
> 
> Arthur Ryman,
> IBM Software Group, Rational Division
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> Arthur,
> I've downloaded the Axis2 Eclipse plugins and played with them a wee
> bit. There are two wizards, one for generating WSDL from Java and
vice 
> versa, and one for generating Web services "Axis archives".
The wizards 
> provide fairly nifty SWT wrappers around the Axis2 tools. They neither
> use nor extend anything from WTP. They also do not appear to exploit
> much of Eclipse beyond SWT. From what I've seen of the source (and
I've 
> only breezed over some of it), they are compact, well-written wizards
> geared towards putting a good looking graphical face on the Axis2
tools. 
> Most other aspects of Eclipse integation typical of other plugins
appear 
> a bit lacking, which is where integration with WTP could really help.
> For example, initial selections are ignored, filenames are operating
> system specific (Eclipse resource filenames don't work), page validation
> is minimal, and error conditions from the CodeGenerationEngine appear
to 
> be rendered as-is.
> 
> I think it would be very worthwhile to adapt Axis2's SWT stuff (and
> generators of course) with our Web services and Environment frameworks
- 
> especially if, as you suggest, we can find somebody from the Apache
> Axis2 project to help out, as it will be some time before I or anyone
on 
> my local team here can invest much effort into integrating Axis2 into
WTP.
> 
> Cheers - CB.
> 
> Chris Brealey
> Senior Advisory Technical Manager, Rational Java Web Services, IBM
> Canada Ltd.
> D3-275, D3/ENX/8200/MKM, 8200 Warden Avenue, Markham, Ontario, Canada,
> L6G 1C7
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> I met Sanjiva Weerawarana at my WSDL 2.0 meeting today and he pointed
> out that Axis2 packaged their code generator as an Eclipse plugin.
[1] 
> It doesn't use the WTP extension points AFAIK. Sanjiva was interested
in 
> contributing this the WTP.
> 
> Chris, please have a look at this. Maybe we can get an Axis2 project
> member to work on WTP to integrate this.
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> [1] http://ws.apache.org/axis2/CodegenToolReference.html
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> Arthur Ryman,
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