Stephen Connolly / JAX-WS 2.1 madness

Created Wed, 05 Sep 2007 00:00:00 +0000 Modified Wed, 05 Sep 2007 00:00:00 +0000

I am sick of the fun that is getting JAX-WS 2.1 to work on JVM 1.6.

Oh, copy these four jars into the endorsed directory and then you can use JAX-WS 2.1… oh but sometimes it won’t work for some unknown reason and then it will work again.

How you are supposed to explain this to end users, I don’t know.

So next you need a platform specific installer to put those jars into the correct location, or a platform specific start script to tell the JVM about my alternate endorsed lib folder… or do I write a self-extracting jar file that exctracts the libs and forks a second JVM… no that won’t work for people wanting to use my library..

We went through all this pain with SAX and DOM. Did Sun learn nothing?