Ya, I've written web applications for many years, using many different
frameworks. I looked at the XFire approach, but I find it a very heavy
stack. However I've never used it so I can't say for sure. Mina just
seemed like a very fast and flexible framework, being a network
framework for applications.
Rodrigo Madera wrote:
I'll give you my opinion based on your description.
Or course, this is only one of the various ways you can implement your
project.
It would be awesome that other members of the list provide their own
implementations so we can compare.
I'm creating a client/server learning management system. It will involve
everything from passing objects to multimedia audio/video. I need some
kind of control structure to pass requests to different services on the
handler.
This could be implemented as a rich Internet page. Of course you will need a
web interface (which you said you don't want) but this way it's already
available and ready for you to put together.
I was just creating a main handler and having it call an array
of services. But none of this is set in stone. I'm really just learning
it. An example would be a student logs in and a request if made for the
list of courses this student is enrolled in. So my server would return a
list of Course objects to the client. So I have to have a way to route
requests to the proper services.
This is normally implemented as a page. You can make this a standard web
service using SOAP (which relies on HTTP itself) and make it available for
every kind of client, be it or not a web based one.
I started to create a action class that
just extends a hashmap that way it was abstract enough to used on future
version. Like JMS message class. Does any of this make sense? I'm sure
others deal with this issue all the time. I even thought about just
copying the JMS message class.
Again, you could implement it using a variety of methods, but the web page
version makes more sense to me.
Regards,
Rodrigo
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