Thanks for the clarifications guys... I think what we need is a semantic
analyzer.

On Wednesday, February 5, 2014, Kasun Gajasinghe <kas...@wso2.com> wrote:

> Thanks Senaka for the update.
>
> For, JAX-RS services, checking for the @Path annotation doesn't always
> work. That's because it's not mandatory to have @Path annotation set in the
> class, or in a method in a class. Usually, the *methods* in a jax-rs
> resource class would have the @Path annotation set though. So, we have to
> write the parsing logic accordingly. But, I think a good way to determine
> whether a given code is for a jax-rs /jax-ws service is the following. This
> is assuming the service is a CXF-based one.
>
> 1. Read the web.xml, and check whether the
> org.apache.cxf.transport.servlet.CXFServlet is set as a servlet.
> 2. If so, then check whether it has a 'config-location' init-param set.
> Get its value. If not, the default is set to WEB-INF/cxf-servlet.xml. This
> is a spring beans config file.
> 3. Parse that config file. If you find <jaxrs:server .../> tag, then it's
> a jax-rs service. If you find <jaxws:server .../> then it's a jax-ws
> service.
>
> Regards,
> KasunG
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 12:37 AM, Senaka Fernando <sen...@wso2.com> wrote:
>
> -1 for another meta file.
>
> Guys, we don't want this to change anything that we are doing today. What
> we need is to read the existing code and try to understand what it is. As a
> developer debugging the code you can read the services.xml and the
> corresponding class and whatever other information that we have right now
> in the POM and determine that a particular bundle is publishing an Axis2
> service.
>
> The introspection Jayanga is writing should follow the same pattern like a
> human trying to read the code and understand whether this is a Axis2
> service or a JAX-WS service or a JAX-RS service. If a human can't read
> source code and figure out whether it is a Data Service or a ESB Proxy
> Service we cannot be implementing a governance process around that. But I'm
> pretty sure that's not the case. Given the project and given the type of
> files in there you can figure out what it is doing. We just need to code
> that introspection logic. Of course there can be complications like the
> same project producing two or more types of services. We need to handle
> things like that.
>
> Also, Kasun et al, we are talking about source code here, and not the
> compiled AAR file etc.
>
> Thanks,
> Senaka.
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 7:41 PM, Jayanga Dissanayake <jaya...@wso2.com>wrote:
>
> Hi Nirmal,
>
> Thanks for the suggestion.
>
> Our first approach is to extract relevant information from the source
> without adding any burden on the developer.
>
> Using an additional meta file to indicate the information needed by the
> governance purposes will simplify the governance process and we could use a
> unified process to create service assets across all types of services.
>
> We can even embed the extra information to the pom.xml as properties.
>
> Thanks,
>
> *Jayanga Dissanayake*
> Senior Software Engineer
> WSO2 Inc. - http://wso2.com/
> lean . enterprise . middleware
> email: jaya...@wso2.com
> mobile: +94772207259
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 10:34 PM, Nirmal Fernando <nir...@wso2.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Jayanga,
>
> I wonder this approach would help us. There could be lot of issues.
>
> Why not thinking of introducing a meta file which represents basic set of
> information that you require in order to generate these assets? Then the
> relevant components would need to configure this meta file, if it wants to
> be registered as an asset.
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 10:17 PM, Jayanga Dissanayake <jaya...@wso2.com>wrote:
>
> Hi Udara,
>
> Agreed with your point.
> Its not just enough to have a file having the name 'services.xml' to
> create a service assert.
>
> We have to read the file and get the service name and other information
> from the file.
> As Axis2 support <serviceGroup>, A single 'services.xml' file sometimes
> may contain information about several services, hence several service
> assert instances may have to be created.
>
> Thanks,
>
> *Jayanga Dissanayake*
> Seni
>
> *Kasun Gajasinghe*
> Software Engineer;
> WSO2 Inc.; http://wso2.com
>
>
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>
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