spring-ws

Everyone's saying "Contract-First" approach to design WS is more inclined to SOA style design. Now, if we take the available open-source frameworks available to achieve that we have Spring-ws and also Axis2 (which supports both styles). I have a task to design SOA based e-commerce app. where loose coupling, quick response, security and scalability are the key points. So it is very important to choose the right framework from the start. Based on past experiences, which of them or something else do you guys think to be a more appropriate option for my requirements. That is a tough question. I

I've a Java Spring Web application that I need to use as SOAP client. I'm using Maven and I've got a main module (WAR) with my custom code and a child module (JAR dependency) with the WSDLs (I've two WSDL) generated classes. As you can see in the title when I run the application an error occurs javax.xml.bind.JAXBException: doesn't contain ObjectFactory.class or jaxb.index This is the ApplicationContext.xml of the main module: <bean id="messageFactory" class="org.springframework.ws.soap.saaj.SaajSoapMessageFactory"/> <bean id="webServiceTemplate" class="org.springframework.ws.client.core

I have read the Spring doc regarding Securing your Web services with Spring-WS but it looks for me as if the article is just regarding server side and not client side. Indeed, it is working fine for server side with Wss4jSecurityInterceptor but I need to sign a request to an external Web service. So, first question. Am I right and chapter 7 of Spring Web Services documentation just apply to server side? Second. It is possible, to add security, like signed headers, to SOAP requests on client side with Spring in a way similar (simple, elegant) to how it is done on server side? I have found this