Coming up for 1.0 M2: POX support

[Arjen Poutsma]

I'm currently finalizing the Plain Old XML (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plain_Old_XML) messages support. These are messages that do not contain a SOAP envelope, only a payload. In effect, it's just an XML document. The architecture is already adapted for this (i.e. most classes are SOAP-agnostic).

Note that POX is not the same as REST. In my opinion, REST applications can be made best with existing MVC-frameworks like Spring-MVC, since they are tightly bound to the HTTP protocol. Adding support for it would have no benefit (though the O/X mapping abstractions can be very useful in REST-solutions as well).

I will commit the code this weekend, and do a 1.0 M2 after that (Finally :-) ).

If you have any comment on this feature, or would like to see another feature implemented, feel free to comment below. Or use JIRA.

[beddoes]

As requested in another thread update on using spring-ws as client side would be appreciated .

[benethridge]

Hi, Arjen.

We would like Spring Web Service+ support for the new "bean scopes" (request, session and global) stated in the 2.0-rc3 reference manual (if Spring Web Services is not already able to support these).

This is a problem Costin and I have been discussing for a while, and we got to thinking that Spring Web Service might solve it (and maybe already does, since it's an http based web app).

I specifically need support for the request scope, as discussed in this thread with Costin:


http://forum.springframework.org/showthread.php?t=28638

Ben