Hi,

I know this question has been asked here before, but I don't think those answers were adequate for my needs.

We have a SOAP webservice that is used for an iPhone application, but it is possible that we need an Android specific version or a proxy of the service, so we have the option to go with either SOAP or JSON. I have a few concerns about both methods:

SOAP solution:

1. Is it possible to generate java source code from a WSDL file, if so, will it include some kind of proxy class to invoke the webservice and will it work in the Android environment at all?
2. Google has not provided any SOAP library in Android, so i need to use 3rd party, any suggestion?
3. What about the performance/overhead with parsing and transmitting SOAP xml over the wire versus the JSON solution?

JSON solution:

1. There is a few classes in the Android sdk that will let me parse JSON, but does it support generic parsing, like if I want the result to be parsed as a complex type? Or would I need to implement that myself?
2. I have read about 2 libraries before here on Stackoverflow, GSON an Jackson. What is the difference performance and usability (from a developers perspective) wise? Do you guys have any experince with either of those libraries?

So i guess the big question is, what method to go with?

I hope you can help me out. Thanks in advance :-)