Tue, 14 Jun 2005

Well, I guess that explains all of my problems with Axis: their developers have lost it. They have now launched something called Axiom, a DOM-oriented intermediate XML data structure. We already have quite a few of these, they are called DOM, and when you don't want to lose it yourself, XOM. Now we have to learn another one, and, by a first glance on the code, they managed to make it look actually worse than DOM. Evidence:

OMElement documentElement =
OMFactory.newInstance().createOMElement(
    "MyDocumentElement",
    "http://chinthaka.org",
    "myPrefix");
documentElement.setValue("Sample Text");

Sheesh, we can only hope for JAX-WS 2.0 to rescue us from this.