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JackDev
JackDev

Reputation: 11173

JBossWS vs JAX-WS

This might be a trivial question, but it's been confusing me and I couldn't find a direct answer from google and through online searching.

What is the difference between JBossWS and JAX-WS?

Is JBossWS an implementation built on JAX-WS, so in a sense JBossWS contains JAX-WS? If so what makes people use JBossWS and not JAX-WS?

Thanks so much!

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1946

Answers (2)

joergl
joergl

Reputation: 2866

What is the difference between JBossWS and JAX-WS?

Is JBossWS an implementation built on JAX-WS, so in a sense JBossWS contains JAX-WS?

JAX-WS is a specification for building web services in Java. It defines annotations to be used (@WebService, ...) and so on. The jdk contains a reference implementation of this specification, the JAX-WS RI.

JBossWS implements the JAX-WS specification. That is, it supports the same annotations and programming model as the JAX-WS RI. It does afaik not contain the RI, but provides its own implementation.

If so what makes people use JBossWS and not JAX-WS?

No matter whether you are using JBossWS or the RI, you will be using JAX-WS. People will use an implementation different from the RI, because they need the support of additional WS-standards, such as WS-Security, WS-ReliableMessaging and more. The only additional standard the RI supports (apart from WSDL and SOAP of course) is WS-Addressing.

On that note: There are several more JAX-WS implementations with differing degree of support out there. For example Apache CXF or Metro.

Upvotes: 3

kovica
kovica

Reputation: 2583

According to their web page (http://www.jboss.org/jbossws/) it seems that JBossWS is part of the JBoss application server, so it is a JAX-WS implementation.

Features:

  • JAX-RPC and JAX-WS (2.2) support
  • JBoss Application Server 5 (JavaEE 5 compliant) web service stack
  • EJB 2.1, EJB3 and JSE endpoints
  • Attachments Profile Version 1.0
  • Support for MTOM/XOP and SwA-Ref
  • WS-Security 1.0 for XML Encryption/Signature of the SOAP message
  • WS-Addressing (W3C candidate release) and JSR-261
  • WS-ReliableMessaging
  • WS-Eventing
  • WS-Policy

Upvotes: 1

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