Struts Web Service project on SF.net

2005-01-21 Thread Frank W. Zammetti
Just wanted to drop a note to let everyone know that I've set up my first SourceForge project... SF will now be the home of my Struts Web Services project. http://sourceforge.net/projects/strutsws/ For those of you that don't know about this project... it's basically a way of allowing you to ta

Re: Struts Web Service project on SF.net

2005-01-22 Thread Vic
Sounds like an interesting project. Once 1.3 is a bit more stable but before it's released I will look for a good way to integrate JDNC (Swing WebStart) into 1.3 so I will keep an eye on. Chain is very simple and very powerfull. .V Frank W. Zammetti wrote: Just wanted to drop a note to let

Re: Struts Web Service project on SF.net

2005-01-22 Thread Frank W. Zammetti
I agree about chain... I just took a look it a week or so ago, just a few minutes looking over it (actually, I forget who it was, but someone posted a very nice summary on it a week or two ago on this very list). I thought about how to get the same effect as my project within that paradigm, and

Re: Struts Web Service project on SF.net

2005-01-22 Thread Dakota Jack
Hello, Frank, I really think this project is the creme d' la creme. Good show! I definitely will use this and might contribute, if I come up with anything useful. I don't think there is any issue with melding this and chain. On Sat, 22 Jan 2005 14:04:00 -0500, Frank W. Zammetti <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Struts Web Service project on SF.net

2005-01-22 Thread Frank W. Zammetti
Dakota Jack wrote: Hello, Frank, I really think this project is the creme d' la creme. Good show! I definitely will use this and might contribute, if I come up with anything useful. I don't think there is any issue with melding this and chain. Thanks Jack, I appreciate it! I'd of course appreci

Re: Struts Web Service project on SF.net

2005-01-22 Thread Leon Rosenberg
Hello Frank, May I ask You what is the actual goal of your project? "This project provides a simple mechanism whereby existing business logic components of a Struts-based application can be exposed as rudimentary Web Services without the need to change any existing application code." Hmm, I don'

Re: Struts Web Service project on SF.net

2005-01-22 Thread Leon Rosenberg
Hello Frank, May I ask You what is the actual goal of your project? "This project provides a simple mechanism whereby existing business logic components of a Struts-based application can be exposed as rudimentary Web Services without the need to change any existing application code." Hmm, I don'

Re: Struts Web Service project on SF.net

2005-01-22 Thread Frank W. Zammetti
Leon Rosenberg wrote: May I ask You what is the actual goal of your project? "This project provides a simple mechanism whereby existing business logic components of a Struts-based application can be exposed as rudimentary Web Services without the need to change any existing application code." Hmm,

Re: Struts Web Service project on SF.net

2005-01-22 Thread Will Stranathan
Not to show how terribly behind the times I am, but isn't that precisely one of the things Axis does? You pop a war file into your container, add your existing business code, and voila, standard java methods are exposed as web services? Not saying your plans won't cure cancer, but are you rein

Re: Struts Web Service project on SF.net

2005-01-22 Thread Frank W. Zammetti
Will Stranathan wrote: Not to show how terribly behind the times I am, but isn't that precisely one of the things Axis does? To be perfectly honest, I don't know. I don't know much about Axis, so I'm not sure I can comment. But, being as how not really knowing what I'm talking about has neve

Re: Struts Web Service project on SF.net

2005-01-22 Thread Craig McClanahan
On Sat, 22 Jan 2005 22:48:13 -0500, Frank W. Zammetti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > More importantly though, where I think it differs in a material way, is > the fact that my solution gives you the ability to expose services but > still use all the resources of your container, your application and

Re: Struts Web Service project on SF.net

2005-01-23 Thread Vic
I have used Axis w/ Struts My opinion is that Axis is very poor and complex SOAP. Also, there are better SoA protocols. The news here is Chain. That is the power. .V Will Stranathan wrote: Not to show how terribly behind the times I am, but isn't that precisely one of the things Axis does?

Re: Struts Web Service project on SF.net

2005-01-23 Thread Frank W. Zammetti
Craig McClanahan wrote: In theory, you should be able to combine functionality based on Axis (or the standard JAX-RPC APIs, for that matter) in the same webapp as a Struts based application that interacts with human users, and therefore achieve some of the same kinds of reuse that you are after. T

Re: Struts Web Service project on SF.net

2005-01-28 Thread bschneider
> Most importantly though is that you can still use what Struts gives you, > things like form validation and internationalization, plus some degree of > the control layer, depending on how your app is designed. I think with Axis, > you would have to either write some code to duplicate these things,

Re: Struts Web Service project on SF.net

2005-01-28 Thread Frank W. Zammetti
That was my point exactly. :) Especially when you already have the application implemented in Struts, something like my project makes some sense. If you were writing something new, you might want to do things differently. -- Frank W. Zammetti Founder and Chief Software Architect Omnytex Techn

[OT] Re: Struts Web Service project on SF.net

2005-01-22 Thread Dakota Jack
Don't worry about reinventing the wheel, Frank. Even little kids do that. Inventing the wheel is nothing. The real difficulty was the axel, bearings, etc. ;-) Jack -- -- "You can lead a horse to water but you cannot make it float on its back." ~Dakota Jack~ "Yo