Axis2 + Spring + Spring WS

[ChristFollower]

This is a very general question regarding choosing Open Source products.

We are using Tomcat and we are using Axis2 as our Web Services server. We want to follow certain design pattern or framework. Some of our non-ws products are already using Spring framework 2.0.

My questions are:
1. Do I get any benefits by using Spring WS (on top of Axis2)?
2. Can I use the latest Spring WS (1.0) with Spring 2.0?

Thanks.
Danny

[Arjen Poutsma]

My questions are:
1. Do I get any benefits by using Spring WS (on top of Axis2)?

If you are happy using Axis2, I would say don't change it. Spring-WS doesn't actually work on top of Axis2, although it can use certain parts (i.e. the Axiom framework).

2. Can I use the latest Spring WS (1.0) with Spring 2.0?

Yes. Spring-WS works with both 1.2.8 and 2.0.1, though we need the new Message-Driven Pojo model from 2.0 to receive and send JMS messages.

[aragonknight]

Could you please guide me on how to ad the security headers to the client soap request using the stubs i have created using Axis2 from the wsdl generated by spring web services?

Any help would be great.

Thank you,