[rakesh.gaddam]

Hi,

I saw the cool features that XFire provides for implementing Web Services.But unfortunately it runs only on Java 5.Is there a way to use JDK 1.4 instead of Java 5 and still get the same features.We cant use Java 5 because Weblogic 8.1 doesn’t support that.

I saw that there was an earlier version of XFire i.e 1.1 before 1.2 was released.Does 1.1 also uses java 5?If not is there a plugin we can use to make it work with 1.4.

I have worked somewhat with JDK 1.4 using XFire, the only problem arises when we try to create the classes using wsdl document.Is there a workaround for this.

It would be really helpful if I can get a solution to this.

Thanks
Rakesh.

[Brian Fernandes]

Rakesh,

You can use the XFire framework with Java 1.4. Unfortunately as you stated, the generator which converts WSDL to a WS implementation requires Java 5 and will in turn generate only Java 5 code. The generator itself is authored by the XFire team and they do not currently have any plans of adding 1.4 support. Perhaps you can generate code using JDK 5 and then manually convert it to 1.4 code.

Let us know if we can be of further assistance.

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