I'm aware this is off topic, but since there are so many people on the list
with a broad skill set am hoping I can learn from their experiences /
heartbreak. I am evaluating various WS stacks for interfacing with a system
- currently I am using XFire as it requires very little configuration and
performs quite efficiently. XFire appears to qualify every xml element with
a namespace, bloating the payload considerably, or, if using the patch from
http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/XFIRE-687 appears to have unreliable /
inconsistent namespace qualifiers. Can anyone recommend a good WS stack
they have positive experience of? My constraints are quite liberal - java
1.5 up, currently jetty as an AS, spring 3.0.2.RELEASE. Is CXF any good? I
want to find something with good performance obviously, minimal config, and
hopefully something that consistently defines package level namespaces at an
envelope level and reuses them.



Many thanks,

Jim.