Frank forgive me here, but playing Devils Advocate, if you have clean MVC separation then surely the last thing you want to do is to expose Actions as Web Services.
It is reasonable to want to expose Business Service Providers such as EJB, or TopLink beans as Web Services but that's up in the model layer, what's the point in pushing the access point down into the Controller code?
I guess I see this another way. Business logic should be just that, business logic. Shouldn't a web service just provide another view of your business logic. And as another view shouldn't it be relying on your controller to provide the manipulation of the logic to get to its view?
isn't this exactly the right place to put this kind of thing?
Or do you see here a solution for all those folks who've not followed best practice and have intermingled Controller functionality with Business logic..?
Aren't you just intermingling the view with the model if you expose your logic?
Just playing devils advocate of course. ;-)
Regards
Duncan Mills Senior Principal Product Manager Oracle Application Development Tools
Frank Zammetti wrote:
Hello devs! This is my first time posting here, and my first attempt at contributing to an Apache project. I hope I'm going about it properly! :)
In short, I have a little project going with the stated goal of allowing a Struts developer to expose any existing business logic, as implemented in Struts Actions and their subordinate helper classes, as Web Services, and do this with NO changes required to any existing application code, and as little change to Struts itself as possible. Simplicity is the key to this!
Today I released a second version of this project to the user's mailing list, and after some feedback I think it's at a point where I'd like to make you all aware of it, and get some higher-level feedback. It's certainly far from complete at this point, but I think even now it's in a useful form.
My hope is that eventually it will be good enough to be included in the base Struts distro, but that's obviously a long way off, if ever.
With all that in mind, please at your convenience visit http://www.omnytex.com/strutsws
There you will find some more detailed technical information and a download which contains everything you need, including a simple sample webapp demonstrating the whole mess.
I thank you in advance for any time you spend on this!
Frank W. Zammetti
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