Which app server are you using? Each one puts its logging config in a different place, though most nowadays use Commons-Logging as a wrapper around either Log4J or java.util.logging. Using Tomcat as an example, this document explains your options for configuring logging using either option. In either case you need to find or create a … Read more
What is the best approach to do this JAVA? I would personally NOT use Axis 2, even for client side development only. Here is why I stay away from it: I don’t like its architecture and hate its counter productive deployment model. I find it to be low quality project. I don’t like its performances … Read more
The JAX-WS implementation built into the JDK really is just the basic soap stuff. If you need any of the more complex WS-* things like WS-Security, WS-RM, WS-Policy, etc…, you need to use one of the alternatives like CXF or Metro or Axis2. It can also depend on what you are trying to integrate with. … Read more
Keep in mind, I’m completely biased (PMC Chair of CXF), but my thoughts: From a strictly “can the project do what I need it to do” perspective, both are pretty equivalent. There some “edge case” things that CXF can do that Axis 2 cannot and vice versa. But for 90% of the use cases, either … Read more