unfortunately, I found I could not adapt axis to my needs. It is purely
synchronous on the server side. I need asynchronous which I have
already, but just need a stack that converts SOAP messages to objects
and back for me. What I mean by this is the service generated methods
can look like this....
public void method(Request r, Callback c); //this allows my service to
dispatch a call to a remote service and then return this thread back to
the platform immediately while waiting for a response.
instead of just this
public Response method(Request r);
My framework allows the threads to not be blocked and process other
requests. Is there code inside Axis, like just one package that I could
reuse to convert objects to soap and soap to objects? I would really
just like to do routing myself.
thanks,
dean
Anne Thomas Manes wrote:
A SOAP stack does more than just convert messages to objects. A SOAP
message consists of a SOAP Header and a SOAP Body. A SOAP stack must
process all entries in the SOAP Header before processing the SOAP
Body. Then, when processing the SOAP Body, it can pass the XML payload
to an application or it can convert the XML payload into Java objects
and invoke an appropriate method. Also, the SOAP stack processes
faults -- it converts Java exceptions into SOAP Faults.
SOAP messages are always XML; they are never HTML.
Most SOAP stacks provide a POJO framework. Services typically don't
need to know anything about the framework. But ... you need to deploy
your POJOs into the SOAP framework. It's a bit more challenging if you
want to deploy your POJOs into a different framework, although not
impossible.
In any case, Apache SOAP is a very antiquated SOAP stack. No serious
updates have been made to it since early 2002. This project has been
superceded by Apache Axis (see http://ws.apache.org/axis). Axis gives
you a lot more flexibility, and it supports all the latest and
greatest SOAP features.
Axis also gives you the ability to define your own dispatch provider,
so you should be able to adapt it to work with your framework.
Anne
On 8/22/05, Dean Hiller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I am looking for a soap stack. What I mean by this is I am looking for
something that converts the soap messages(html/xml) to objects and
objects back to soap messages. I am not looking for a framework that
routes my messages. I currently have a pojo framework where services no
nothing about the platform. I would like to keep it that way, and would
like to add soap, and rmi so services can be accessed via those methods.
thanks,
dean
