Tools for Building RETS2

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Contents 1 SOAP Toolkits that offer full support for SOAP 1.2: 2 Working with WSDL (code generators): 3 Data Bindings 4 Monitoring Tools - Tracing 5 IDEs

[edit] SOAP Toolkits that offer full support for SOAP 1.2:

• Apache AXIS2
• Sun JWSDP2
• Codehaus XFIRE 1.1 & 1.2
• Microsoft WSE3 and .NET 2.0
• Axis2/C
• Beta: Microsoft WCF
• Beta: Java 1.6 with JAX-WS
• Beta: Apache CXF (XFire 2.0)

[edit] Working with WSDL (code generators):

• WSEWSDL3.exe (wsdl to proxy class client generator)
• Don't use WSDL.exe (comes with Visual Studio) won't generate WSE3 code!
• Wsdl2Java (XFire)
• Wsdl2Code (Axis2/C)
• Wsdl2WS (Axis2)

[edit] Data Bindings

• XSD.exe (.NET)
• Castor (Java)
• JAXB (Java)
• JibX (Java)
• XMLBeans (Java)
• XBinder (C)

[edit] Monitoring Tools - Tracing

• Ethereal
• PocketSOAP tcpTrace

[edit] IDEs

• Eclipse and MyEclipse (WTP plugins)
• VisualStudio 2005 Professional (make sure to have .NET 2.0 and WSE3)
• NetBeans (plus the 5.5 beta 2 version includes a web services interoperability tech support module)
• JDeveloper