Re: SOAP-over-UDP

Tue, 31 May 2005 03:05:22 -0700 

Have your server regularly broadcast its address on a port.
Have your client act as a server on startup and listen on the same port.
When the real server broadcasts its address, the client will receive a connection request. One you have the server address, ask the server for the information you need (what you call the context). 

Le 31 mai 05 � 11:41, Francesco Munari a �crit :


Hi, Eric.

Ok, but how can I do this? I think I'm a newbie in this kind of
operation, sorry. How can I look to a port of servers in a LAN without
knowing their IP? And in this way may I keep the context-awareness of
the communication?

thank you for you reply

Cheers

francesco

2005/5/31, Eric VERGNAUD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:


I'm afraid that is a very verbose way of doing things. The typical
way to do this is determine a port, have your server broadcast its IP
address on that port, and your clients look on that port to grab the
address.

Once the address is found, you can safely interact with the server
using SOAP over HTTP.

Le 30 mai 05 � 22:19, Francesco Munari a �crit :



I'm alredy using UDDI4j. The idea is that I don't know where the  
UDDI

registry can be in the LAN.
I assume that the client knows only two things:
1) the network (of course)
2) a "search key" for a particular tipe of service

and that's all.
The client should send a broadcast SOAP (or XML-RPC) request
containing the search method to call on the server with the "key"
passed as a parameter and somewhere into the LAN should be a server
(or more) with its private UDDI registry that should reply with a

response containing the result of the invoking of the method  
contained
in the sender's RPC request. The response should contain just the  
URL

of the WSDL file related to the service found.


The need of the broadcast message is that the client don't know  
where

(or if) there could be any UDDI registry in the network. With this
framework a client can change network configuration (for example,
going from a floor to another with a Palm in a wireless LAN) and,
after leaving the service provided in the first network, find anothe

one similar on the other network only by pressing the button  
"Refresh"

:)

Francesco

2005/5/30, Martin Gainty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:



The side effect of a broadcast without authentication is  
flooding the

network with unwanted disovery packets
I guess this is OK if you're utilising a high datarate
transmission i guess

In your case your SOAP Request should look like

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<SOAP-ENV:Envelope
xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"; >
 <SOAP-ENV:Body>
   <getTest>
     <Test>Test</Test>
   </getTest>
 </SOAP-ENV:Body>
</SOAP-ENV:Envelope>

If you want to discover a "SOAP based" web-service based on some

characteristic such as Business Service Category why not use  
UDDI4J?

Take a look at
http://sourceforge.net/projects/uddi4j

Martin-

----- Original Message -----
From: "Francesco Munari" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Martin Gainty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, May 30, 2005 12:44 PM
Subject: Re: SOAP-over-UDP

Martins,

It is for this reason that I'd like to broadcast a SOAP request
instead of a simple XML-RPC message. The goal of my framework is to
keep the "context awareness" offered by XML language.
If you are sure that there is no way to send a broadcast SOAP
request,
the last solution, I think, it could be XML-RPC.

So, two questions:

1) are you sure ther's no way to send a broadcast SOAP request?
2) In order to send a broadcast XML-RPC message I've to cerate a
StringWriter like this (for example)?

<?xml version="1.0" ?>
  <methodCall>
      <methodName>getTest</methodName>
      <params>
          <param>
              <value>
                 <string>Test</string>
              </value>
          </param>
      </params>
</methodCall>

Thank's Martin.

Francesco

2005/5/30, Martin Gainty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:



Francesco-
You can Broadcast XML-RPC assuming you dont mind flooding your
network
The question is can you confine your application to using the
more basic
datatypes supported by XML-RPC
vs implementing SOAP features (user-defined datatypes, namespace
URI)?
Anyone else?
Martin-
----- Original Message -----
From: "Francesco Munari" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Martin Gainty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, May 30, 2005 6:45 AM
Subject: Re: SOAP-over-UDP

Grazie! :)

Could someone tell me if a simple XML-RPC message may be sent to a
broadcast address? A simple message with the medthod to be
invoked. In
this way I should be able to send a broadcast XML-RPC request
with the
appropriate UDDI inquiry method; a server (containing a UDDI
registry)

should receive it, invoke that method and send a reply in XML  
format

to the sender.

It could be a good idea?

thank you again!

Francesco

2005/5/29, Martin Gainty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:



benvenuto!
Martin-

----- Original Message -----
From: "Francesco Munari" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, May 28, 2005 5:41 PM
Subject: Re: SOAP-over-UDP

Thank you all for your very quick reply!

I've heard about this SOAP-over-UDP spec
(http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-
us/dnglobspec/html/soap-over-udp.asp).
So, Martin, you say that it could not be a solution? Perhaps it
should
be an idea using Mark's solution (with DNS).


I thought to resolve the problem putting a SOAP envelope into  
a UDP

datagram, send the datagram to a broadcast ip and that's all

folks...but I don't know how and, as you, Martins, wrote, I  
was not

able to find anybody who has implemented this yet.

Can you suggest me another solutions?

Thank you very much again!!

Cheers,

Francesco

2005/5/28, Martin Gainty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:



Mark/Francesco
I would caution on use of UDP as the SOAP Portocols (e.g. HTTP)
is/are
decidely not UDP but instead a connection-oriented TCP
To date I have not seen UDP Ports used for SOAP transmission
although
since
there is no requirement for verifiable connection and or
handshakes
I would venture to guess UDP is available as the transmission
medium
but
I
have not seen any UDP Ports used for SOAP thus far
Anyone else ???
Ciao-
Martin-

----- Original Message -----
From: "mdonaghue" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>; "'Francesco Munari'"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, May 28, 2005 3:14 PM
Subject: RE: SOAP-over-UDP




Hi Franceso,

I've worked briefly with the apache soap api, not that
familiar with
it.

Typically a soap message is sent to a single soap server  
address,

which
is
specified by a url or an ip address, as well as a port. So your
server
address on the LAN might be something like 192.168.100.2:8080.
(I'm
not
sure
what the port is for UDDI, so just using standard TomCat Web
Server
port).

IIRC, you there's a point at which you specify that address in
the
setup
for
your soap call. One thing you could try is to change the
address to
the
subnet's broadcast address, 255.255.255.0:8080, assuming a
class c
network
where the first 3 quads specify the network portion of the
submask.

However, this may not a scalable solution, since the broadcast
wouldn't

carry beyond the physical subnet on which you are located.  
Using

UDDI
to

discover services is one thing, but dynamically discovering  
UDDI

servers
is
obviously a different problem. It also doesn't address the
issue of
more
than one UDDI server running on the same subnet.


A more generalized solution might involve a distributed ip  
lookup

service,
namely DNS. For example when DNS looks up the ip address of
Yahoo.com,
at
some point the actual ip address that serves the request is
dynamically
assigned to one of dozens (or hundreds) of servers based on a
scheduling

scheme.  You could locally enable DNS lookup, and create an  
entry

based
on
some url like "myuddpsever.com", and give it your local UDDI
server's
ip
address, and the rest would be handled within the network. The
advantage
to

this is your UDDP server could be anywhere and your message  
would

still
reach it.

hth,
Mark





-----Original Message-----
From: Francesco Munari [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, May 28, 2005 4:58 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: SOAP-over-UDP

Hi, I'm desperate!

I'm trying to find out how to send a broadcast SOAP request  
to a

UDDI
registry in a LAN, but I'm not able to do this. I've looked
for some
example but I've not found anithing.

Please...could anybody help me?

I'm making a thesis for the University of Florence (Italy)  
and I

have
to discovery dinamically web service published in some UDDI
registry
somewhere in a LAN. I have to send a broadcast SOAP request to
these
UDDI registry (as I wrote few lines above).
Of course I'm using Java language.


Thank you very much for your help...I'm in a great  
hurry...thanks

very
very much to everyone could help me!

Best reguards,

Francesco























































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