Screaming Penguin - Source Does Matter

Web services as simple as name, namespace, class? Yep.

There is no more to the XFire quick start than that and you have a service.

Axis is pretty darn simple too, if you write your own tasks (ant, maven, etc) to "cook" a service via java2wsdl and deploy - but not this simple out of the box.

XFire is getting lots of good press lately and looks pretty sweet, might be time for a closer look.