On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 7:06 AM, keith chapman <[email protected]>wrote:
> AFAIK Axis1 does not have support for REST, but Axis2 has rich support for > REST. Therefore the following might be a good option for you. > > The WSO2 Web Services Application Server (WSO2 WSAS) [1] which is a > complete runtime for web services built on top of Axis2 has a key feature > that lets you expose Axis1 services as Axis2 services (It proxies requests > for Axis1 services via Axis2. Therefore WSAS will accept a REST request and > pass it on as a SOAP request to Axis1). We've just released a public beta of > WSAS 3.0 [2]. (It is available under the Apache Liscense, hence you could > download it and tryit out your self). Is there any example service of this proxy-ing Axis1 service via Axis2? I did download wsas2.3 binary and saw the e.g's TinyURL and Flickr.. > > > Thanks, > Keith. > > [1] http://wso2.org/projects/wsas/java > [2] > http://ww2.wso2.org/~wsasbuilder/wsas_3_0/beta1/wso2wsas-SNAPSHOT.zip<http://ww2.wso2.org/%7Ewsasbuilder/wsas_3_0/beta1/wso2wsas-SNAPSHOT.zip> > > > On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 3:39 AM, kat kat <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> >> On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 9:07 PM, kat kat <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 8:41 PM, keith chapman >>> <[email protected]>wrote: >>> >>>> Can you explain why you have to use Axis2 a.4 and not Axis2 a.4.1? >>> >>> >>> Is Axis 1.4 ( http://ws.apache.org/axis/ ) referred as Axis2 a.4? >>> >>> Well, I am planning to manage the VMWare ESX 3.5 virtual machines using >>> the SOAP web service they provide. They have given the WSDL although the >>> code generated by WSDL2JAVA class from Axis ( http://ws.apache.org/axis/) >>> and Axis2 are pretty different. VMWare recommends development of client >>> code accessing their service on Axis 1.4. >>> >>> Me being new to both and in the interest to develop the client faster I >>> want to kick start with the client code examples they have given. They >>> generate client stubs using WSDL2JAVA of Axis 1.4. >>> >>> I agree same is possible with AXIS2 as well and my original aim was to >>> develop a service which will act as a REST server (other projects in my >>> company follow REST) and SOAP client for VMWare with REST acting just as a >>> interface between my webservice and other projects which use REST client in >>> Python. >>> >>> So is the reason. >>> >>> >>> On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 8:27 AM, kat kat <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hello All, >>>>> >>>>> For some reason I will have to use axis 1.4 and not axis2 1.4.1. >>>>> >>>>> So, can Axis 1, current release 1.4, be used in semi-RESTful way with >>>>> just POST/GET methods since it supports WSDL 1.1 and WSDL 1.1, I believe, >>>>> does support POST and GET methods? >>>> >>>> >> >> Any feedback on this? If I want a simple application/x-www-form-urlencoded >> HTTP POST to be performed on one service and equivalently a simple GET, can >> this be done with Axis 1.4. In brief REST style POST and GET with Axis 1.4. >> >> >> >>> If yes, is there any example for this? >>>>> >>>> >> > > > -- > Keith Chapman > Senior Software Engineer > WSO2 Inc. > Oxygenating the Web Service Platform. > http://wso2.org/ > > blog: http://www.keith-chapman.org >
