Andreas Thanks a lot for the reply. Looks like Javaspaces do support xml. I am also studying about Javaspaces at the moment. Main problem I am having is only limited number of recourses regarding javaspaces are available.
On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 2:40 AM, Andreas Veithen <andreas.veit...@gmail.com>wrote: > Nadun, > > Sounds interesting. Probably you will have to start thinking about two > fundamental questions: > > 1) Axis2 always represents messages as XML (more precisely a SOAP > infoset). So you need to decide how this mapping will be done. Most > protocols we already support exchange binary or text messages (a > notable exception is the FIX transport in Synapse) for which this is > fairly easy. I don't know much about JavaSpaces, but if it imposes its > own structure on the messages, then you need to define a mapping to > and from XML. > > 2) You need to analyze how incoming messages would be dispatched to > services. The existing transports fall into two categories: > > - Transports such as HTTP that accept messages on a single "protocol > endpoint" (a TCP port in the case of HTTP) and than use Axis2 > dispatchers to dispatch to the right service (typically based on the > request URI). > > - Transports such as mail and JMS on the other hand predispatch > messages: the transport itself maintains the mapping between protocol > endpoints (email accounts, JMS destinations, etc.) and the services. > If that is the right model for JavaSpaces, then you can build your > transport on top of AbstractTransportListener (from the > axis2-transport-base module in the WS-Commons Transport project). > > > Hope that helps. > > Regards, > > Andreas > > On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 15:34, Nadun Herath <nadunher...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I intend to develop a Javaspace transport to Axis2 as a university > project. > > I am really grateful for any suggestions, ideas. > > Thank you. > > > > http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/tools/JavaSpaces/ >
