On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 12:19 PM, ant elder <ant.el...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 >
Good idea. We put a normalized WSDL representation in place for all interfaces. It would seem appropriate to add this to the registry. I don't think there is a requirement to generate Java from this WSDL as it can be used directly for interface comparison. Simon -- Apache Tuscany committer: tuscany.apache.org Co-author of a book about Tuscany and SCA: tuscanyinaction.com