RE: [AXIS4STRUTS] The old In and Out

2003-01-27 Thread Mike Oliver
al Deadman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, January 27, 2003 9:22 AM To: 'Struts Developers List' Subject: RE: [AXIS4STRUTS] The old In and Out I am used to dealing with EJBs so I am probably not as sympathetic as I should have been to people that have written web applications with

RE: [AXIS4STRUTS] The old In and Out

2003-01-27 Thread Kevin . Bedell
> I can see the appeal of exposing the web application's code as web services > using Axis. It seems like exposing Action classes directly as web services > will be more trouble than it's worth. It would seem better to move the code > in the Action class into another class (not tied to Struts/We

RE: [AXIS4STRUTS] The old In and Out

2003-01-27 Thread Hal Deadman
> From: David Morris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, January 24, 2003 4:59 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [AXIS4STRUTS] The old In and Out > > > Hal and others, > > I agree with your analysis, however I think there is still some > synergy. &

RE: [AXIS4STRUTS] The old In and Out

2003-01-24 Thread Mike Oliver
Developers List Subject: RE: [AXIS4STRUTS] The old In and Out On Fri, 2003-01-24 at 22:41, Mike Oliver wrote: > Oh and BTW I believe you are taking a too narrow view of VIEW, so at > least on that point we disagree. I would define view as the > presentation layer as you do, but the consume

RE: [AXIS4STRUTS] The old In and Out

2003-01-24 Thread Benjamin Tomasini
t; From: Benjamin Tomasini [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, January 24, 2003 7:36 PM > To: Struts Developers List > Subject: RE: [AXIS4STRUTS] The old In and Out > > I don't mean to sound overly negative. I think the idea is interesting, > and am looking f

RE: [AXIS4STRUTS] The old In and Out

2003-01-24 Thread Benjamin Tomasini
too, then that has value...that I know I can use. > > Michael Oliver > AppsAsPeers LLC > 7391 S. Bullrider Ave. > Tucson, AZ 85747 > Phone:(520)574-1150 > Fax:(520)844-1036 > > -Original Message- > From: Benjamin Tomasini [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent:

RE: [AXIS4STRUTS] The old In and Out

2003-01-24 Thread Mike Oliver
- From: Benjamin Tomasini [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, January 24, 2003 7:36 PM To: Struts Developers List Subject: RE: [AXIS4STRUTS] The old In and Out I don't mean to sound overly negative. I think the idea is interesting, and am looking forward to seeing creative solutions t

RE: [AXIS4STRUTS] The old In and Out

2003-01-24 Thread Mike Oliver
7391 S. Bullrider Ave. > Tucson, AZ 85747 > Phone:(520)574-1150 > Fax:(520)844-1036 > > > -Original Message- > From: Benjamin Tomasini [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, January 24, 2003 3:38 PM > To: Struts Developers List > Subject: RE: [AXIS4STRUTS]

RE: [AXIS4STRUTS] The old In and Out

2003-01-24 Thread Benjamin Tomasini
; Phone:(520)574-1150 > Fax:(520)844-1036 > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Benjamin Tomasini [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, January 24, 2003 3:38 PM > To: Struts Developers List > Subject: RE: [AXIS4STRUTS] The old In and Out > > True. But someho

RE: [AXIS4STRUTS] The old In and Out

2003-01-24 Thread Mike Oliver
b down the server app". Refer to my paragraph #1 Michael Oliver AppsAsPeers LLC 7391 S. Bullrider Ave. Tucson, AZ 85747 Phone:(520)574-1150 Fax:(520)844-1036 -Original Message- From: Benjamin Tomasini [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, January 24, 2003 3:38 PM To: Struts De

RE: [AXIS4STRUTS] The old In and Out

2003-01-24 Thread Mike Oliver
al Message- From: David Morris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, January 24, 2003 4:01 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [AXIS4STRUTS] The old In and Out Michael, There is very little difference. Others have mentioned support for multiple view, which is great but I don't wan

RE: [AXIS4STRUTS] The old In and Out

2003-01-24 Thread Mike Oliver
- From: Benjamin Tomasini [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, January 24, 2003 3:23 PM To: Struts Developers List Subject: RE: [AXIS4STRUTS] The old In and Out Thanks... I think the interaction with Flash, et. al. could be a big deal. [Mike Oliver>>] Me thinks you think I think

RE: [AXIS4STRUTS] The old In and Out

2003-01-24 Thread Mike Oliver
] The old In and Out > ** You may find more utility in creating set of client side proxys for > Struts server side controller contructs. In other words, RPC the > selected controller components. ActionForms would be user defined, but > the ActionForward, ActionErrors, etc ... co

RE: [AXIS4STRUTS] The old In and Out

2003-01-24 Thread Mike Oliver
] The old In and Out At 4:49 PM -0500 2003/01/24, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I still haven't really absorbed the rationale for this, and my >> difficulty in answering some of your questions make me willing to >> step up and say so. > >> Maybe it would help if w

RE: [AXIS4STRUTS] The old In and Out

2003-01-24 Thread Kevin . Bedell
> True. But somehow, to leverage what struts really is, you would need to > communicate some kind of instructions from the server side controller. The idea is to have the SOAP request contain essentially the same data as would be in an HTTP post (or get). Then you invoke Struts Actions the sam

RE: [AXIS4STRUTS] The old In and Out

2003-01-24 Thread David Morris
Michael, There is very little difference. Others have mentioned support for multiple view, which is great but I don't want to have to do double the effort to support two views instead of one. There is benefit in defining that response in a view neutral way so that interaction could be between

Re: [AXIS4STRUTS] The old In and Out

2003-01-24 Thread Kevin . Bedell
> At 4:49 PM -0500 2003/01/24, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I still haven't really absorbed the rationale for this, and my > >> difficulty in answering some of your questions make me willing to > >> step up and say so. > > > >> Maybe it would help if we could frame the goal of the project, i

RE: [AXIS4STRUTS] The old In and Out

2003-01-24 Thread Benjamin Tomasini
True. But somehow, to leverage what struts really is, you would need to communicate some kind of instructions from the server side controller. I think the core of what I am saying is that Axis does *not* provide a view. And therefore you would have controller functions on the other side of the w

RE: [AXIS4STRUTS] The old In and Out

2003-01-24 Thread Kevin . Bedell
> ** You may find more utility in creating set of client side proxys for > Struts server side controller contructs. In other words, RPC the > selected controller components. ActionForms would be user defined, but > the ActionForward, ActionErrors, etc ... could be proxy objects. I like this

RE: [AXIS4STRUTS] The old In and Out

2003-01-24 Thread Benjamin Tomasini
ry 24, 2003 1:24 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [AXIS4STRUTS] The old In and Out > > I think Axis4Struts is a cool idea, but... there are some viability > issues to address, IMO. > > I just implemented a web services project using access and thought about >

RE: [AXIS4STRUTS] The old In and Out

2003-01-24 Thread Mike Oliver
old In and Out Hal and others, I agree with your analysis, however I think there is still some synergy. First, loading presentation directly from a Web service could be useful although this could be exposed directly through a custom tag so is really not that helpful. Re-encoding a SOAP request

Re: [AXIS4STRUTS] The old In and Out

2003-01-24 Thread Joe Germuska
At 4:49 PM -0500 2003/01/24, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I still haven't really absorbed the rationale for this, and my difficulty in answering some of your questions make me willing to step up and say so. Maybe it would help if we could frame the goal of the project, in terms of more than

RE: [AXIS4STRUTS] The old In and Out

2003-01-24 Thread Mike Oliver
, 2003 1:24 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [AXIS4STRUTS] The old In and Out I think Axis4Struts is a cool idea, but... there are some viability issues to address, IMO. I just implemented a web services project using access and thought about the MVC model of Struts, and if that could be of

RE: [AXIS4STRUTS] The old In and Out

2003-01-24 Thread David Morris
Hal and others, I agree with your analysis, however I think there is still some synergy. First, loading presentation directly from a Web service could be useful although this could be exposed directly through a custom tag so is really not that helpful. Re-encoding a SOAP request to match the c

Re: [AXIS4STRUTS] The old In and Out

2003-01-24 Thread Kevin . Bedell
> I still haven't really absorbed the rationale for this, and my > difficulty in answering some of your questions make me willing to > step up and say so. > Maybe it would help if we could frame the goal of the project, in > terms of more than "wouldn't it be cool?" How about: > My understa

RE: [AXIS4STRUTS] The old In and Out

2003-01-24 Thread Mike Oliver
OTECTED] Subject: RE: [AXIS4STRUTS] The old In and Out *FridayModeOn* > Axis and Struts, like ice cream and sex, are both good things, but I don't > see much benefit to combining them. I think it depends on the flavor of the Ice Cream... ;-) *FridayModeOff* > Is the idea behind Axis for

RE: [AXIS4STRUTS] The old In and Out

2003-01-24 Thread Kevin . Bedell
*FridayModeOn* > Axis and Struts, like ice cream and sex, are both good things, but I don't > see much benefit to combining them. I think it depends on the flavor of the Ice Cream... ;-) *FridayModeOff* > Is the idea behind Axis for Struts to expose Action classes as Web Services? Yes. > Id

RE: [AXIS4STRUTS] The old In and Out

2003-01-24 Thread Benjamin Tomasini
uts, like ice cream and sex, are both good things, but I don't > see much benefit to combining them. > > Hal > > > -Original Message- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Friday, January 24, 2003 1:54 PM > > To: S

RE: [AXIS4STRUTS] The old In and Out

2003-01-24 Thread Hal Deadman
003 1:54 PM > To: Struts Developers List > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [AXIS4STRUTS] The old In and Out > > > > > Mike - > > > If we start with the idea [Kevin's suggestion] that on the > Axis side we > > develop a Web Service that accepts SOAP Requ

RE: [AXIS4STRUTS] The old In and Out

2003-01-24 Thread Mike Oliver
ECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, January 24, 2003 11:54 AM To: Struts Developers List Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [AXIS4STRUTS] The old In and Out Mike - > If we start with the idea [Kevin's suggestion] that on the Axis side we > develop a Web Service that accepts SO

Re: [AXIS4STRUTS] The old In and Out

2003-01-24 Thread Kevin . Bedell
Mike - > If we start with the idea [Kevin's suggestion] that on the Axis side we > develop a Web Service that accepts SOAP Requests with an XML payload and > spins that payload into an HTTP POST/GET to a Struts Application as if > that POST or GET was coming from a Web Browser. Then we need not

[AXIS4STRUTS] The old In and Out

2003-01-24 Thread Mike Oliver
If we start with the idea [Kevin's suggestion] that on the Axis side we develop a Web Service that accepts SOAP Requests with an XML payload and spins that payload into an HTTP POST/GET to a Struts Application as if that POST or GET was coming from a Web Browser. Then we need not make any changes