Presently the endpoint registry doesn't hold any information on the interfaces of an endpoint. In the past we have talked about adding something and I wondered about starting to look at that now.
As an example of one thing I'd like to work: if you start the helloworld sample in the distribution domain by doing "mvn tuscany:run -o -DdomainURI=uri:default" in the helloworld sample and then start another shell, eg in another command prompt do "mvn org.apache.tuscany.maven.plugins:maven-tuscany-plugin:2.0-SNAPSHOT:shell -o -DdomainURI=uri:default" you can see the helloworld service in both shells (use the "services" shell command) but if you try to invoke the service with "invoke HelloworldComponent/Helloworld sayHello lkjlk" it fails in the 2nd shell with an NPE because it doesn't know the interface of the service. One relatively easy option would be to put a wsdl for the service in the endpoint registry and then have wsdl2java type utility API to create Java interfaces from the wsdl as required. or we could try to serialize the Tuscany interface model into the registry instead of a wsdl. Before i do any of those has anyone given this any thought in the past? ...ant
