I presume you know that Apache already has a SOAP servlet that drops into
Tomcat reasonably easily. Then you just write plain java classes and deploy
them. Could not be easier on the server side. The VB client is a bit of a
problem as interoperability is not fully there. Both the Apache and MS
toolkits have some interop bugs, but they are being fixed reasonably
quickly. More quickly for Apache SOAP I might add. In a matter of weeks it
should be pretty drop dead simple on the VB side to hook up to an Apache
SOAP server.
Rick Hansen
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From: Bolt, Dave [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, February 26, 2001 3:41 PM
To: Bolt, Dave; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [jBoss-User] RE: Off-topic socket question
Sorry for the partial post, life is a pain for those of us forced to use MS
Outlook! (Especially it's "helpful feature of encoding all plain text
messages as HTML. Sorry Linux users!)
Anyway the full post continues below.
I have an app that is a mix of Jboss, Tomcat, and a custom socket server.
The socket server is a media repository that will serve as a back-end to my
EJBs in JBoss. Think of the socket server as a kind of specialized FTP site.
The socket server is a replacement for the unreliable support of BLOBs in
Oracle.
The integration between the socket server and the EJBs is no big deal. What
I am wondering is if I can use the socket server to integrate a (ugh) Visual
Basic client to my infrastructure. One group of end users will be producing
content. They use a tool that is a VB client automating MS Word, I'd like to
have this VB client to be able to interact with my socket server to allow
the users to "post" content to the repository.
Does anyone have experience in integrating Java and other enviroments (C,
Visual Basic, etc.) via Sockets.
I'd rather not have to try writing a full FTP or SOAP server in Java. I just
need something that is quick and dirty.
As an alternate solution, is their a good way in Java to monitor the
contents of a directory for when a file gets placed in the directory (for
example as a result of an FTP upload)? How do you know the complete file is
there?
Thanks
Dave Bolt
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