I teach an undergraduate course in Internet Application Development. I chose XFire this year to teach J2EE web services. In the past, I've taught web services with .NET, and one of the things .NET provides that XFire doesn't is a nice auto-generated testing web interface. This sort of functionality is particularly useful when you are learning about web services and experimenting with simple methods that don't take complex parameters. So, I modified XFire to add this feature. I'll describe it briefly:
When you point your browser to the web service, currently XFire displays a message "Invalid SOAP request." There is a TODO comment in the source of XFireServletController that reads "generate service description here". I merely added code to generate that service description. Each generated method signature has a link that brings up a testing form. The user enters values for the parameters, clicks "Execute", and the web method is invoked and its output displayed. I would be glad to contribute this code back to the community, if there is any interest. -- Stephen Schaub --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list please visit: http://xircles.codehaus.org/manage_email
