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WCF compare to JWS

 
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Hi I recently took the scdjws certificate and now I’m starting to study for taking the Microsoft WCF certificate.
I’m not a great .net developer but when I now start to study for WCF I’m starting to see some advantaged with it compare to Java web service.
Conclusions
1. Web services are so common so that they should be supported without any extra packages WCF is in the .net platform java web services is not in the standard SDK.
2. WCF have a clean deployment descriptor in app.config.

My arguments:
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I think it’s today hard to start developing web services in java because there are no general support for doing a web server you have to download spring web server, Apache CXR or have some complex web server installed like Glasshfish or Weblogic.
I think web services are so common today that it should be include by default in the java SDK.
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What I also like whit WCF is that they use the general configuration file app.config where you descript the bindings for your web server and also the recommend that you keep your annotations/attributes for your web server in a interface and then you can have any implementation of that interface
 
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java web services is not in the standard SDK.


Not so. The JAX-WS API -which is the standard high-level API to develop SOAP services in Java- is part of JSE 6.

you have to download spring web server, Apache CXR or have some complex web server installed like Glasshfish or Weblogic.


Not so. JSE 6 also contains a server that can be used to run and test those services - nothing else is required. See Webservices in JDK 6 and Introducing JAX-WS 2.0 With the Java SE 6 Platform for more detail.

Furthermore, JAX-WS relies on annotations that can be kept as part of the code - no configuration files are required at all.

Given these, I'm not sure how developing Java web services could be seen as something that's hard to get started with.
 
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Hi!
Some additional thoughts:


I think it’s today hard to start developing web services in java because there are no general support for doing a web server you have to download spring web server, Apache CXR or have some complex web server installed like Glasshfish or Weblogic.


Personally, I think of this as freedom of choice, instead of freedom from choice.
If you want extremely simple, standalone, web services then go for the Restlet framework. If you have a servlet container, like Tomcat, then I can recommend Metro or Apache CXF. If you want to develop web service with an application server that is ready out-of-the-box and that has IDE integration, then go for GlassFish etc etc.
The problem with freedom of choice is that you have to know what you do and spend at least some time to familiarize yourself with the available options.
If you want an easier way, I would suggest using GlassFish and NetBeans - prepared to be used together, availability of tutorials etc from Sun, makes developing web services etc even easier with wizards.

Additionally, the availability of source code for most Java solutions and, not to forget, the community surrounding a lot of projects and this place (with all the kind and helpful people) has helped me on quite some occasions. Can't say that I know a lot about the community around Microsoft products - please inform me.

With this said, I also want to add that I am interested in developing web services etc using Microsoft products if given an oportunity - after all, web services is about interoperability and there is little challenge is obtaining that between Java-only solutions.
Best wishes!
 
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Hi
Ulf: You are right i did not know about the "JSE 6" soap implimentation and reading about it i must change my mind it's clearly as easy or easier to make web services in java with it.

Ivan: Your right about that java have a much better comunity and it's great that java is open source.
 
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