Choosing a free tool to develop Web Services

[Araxes Tharsis]

Hi,

I am beginning to design a Java application that accesses a mainframe with
IBM Host On-Demand, and should expose its functionalities to
..NET/VB6/C++/Java applications through Web Services. I don't want to use any
Application Servers, so I was wondering what should be the best, and no
cost, approach:

- JAX-RPC (explained in Sun Web Services Tutorial)?;
- Apache Axis ?;
- Systinet WASP (free for one CPU)?;
- IBM WSDK ?

Any comments appreciated.
Thank you very much,
Araxes Tharsis

 

[James]

No app servers - are you hosting one on the mainframe? JAX-RPC is slow, IBM
is proprietary, check into Axis and Soap And WSDL. Soap is the language of
interoperability.