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Jiri will report out his findings in this wiki page and in an email to the fedora-dev list before 31 May. He will compare the major contenders for the replacement library (which right now include Metro, Apache CXF Apache Axis 2, and JBoss WS) using several criteria including but not limited to: community support, tooling support (presence in Maven Central), ease-of-integration, MTOM support, inter al. After some period for comment, a decision will be taken and Jiri can proceed. This work is complete. See above in Key Decisions for the results.
The following sections are now historical, because the decision to use Apache CXF (as per Jiri's recommendation) has been finalized.
WS Stack Comparison
I've picked following web service stacks as candidates:
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