Re: Integrating James with other applications

[Gregory Pierce]

This is actually in the direction I'm headed. Are there any plans to 
expose a service interface of some sort in a standard manner? If so I 
can wait or even help out (probably by just writing whatever is 
planned). What I really need is juat an exposed API that can be 
accessed by applications that want to use James as a service.

On Monday, October 13, 2003, at 04:56 PM, Stephen McConnell wrote:



Gregory Pierce wrote:

Hi folks,

I've been using James successfully for a while now and would like to 
embed James into another application for webhosting. I've been trying 
to figure out what the best methodology is for doing this since the 
Avalon container is fairly stand-alone and I cannot 'instantiate' 
james from a webhosting tool and call functions on its API from 
inside another program.

Any ideas?


In the short-term you could runup James inside Merlin and and expose 
the service interfaces that give you control over account management, 
etc.  To start and stop just james you would have to wait a bit until 
we have container listeners in place unless your brave - in that case 
you can start, stop, manipulate the Merlin meta-model and restart 
Melin (where manipulating the meta-model means doing this like 
changing configrations, parameters, context and other fun stuff).  The 
thing to be aware of is that you would be playing with APIs internal 
to Merlin which are subject to change without notice.

Steve.

(message sent via james build on HEAD, consuming released cornerstone 
components,  on framework 4.1.5, using avalon meta 1.1, containment by 
Merlin 3.1)



Thanks,
Greg
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