I think my misunderstanding comes from how SOAP works.... after what you've
said, I should be able to run my stuff as is.... I'll try to achieve what I
want to again for a couple of days and re-post if I have any further
trouble.
(Sorry, ignore my previous mail for now).
Cheers.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Myers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "soap" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2001 1:17 PM
Subject: Re: Running with separate SOAP stacks?
> At 12:00 PM 6/26/2001 +0100, Dylan J Browne wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >This is a difficult question to put into words, especially as I am
new-ish
> >to SOAP, but I'll try....
> >
> >All the examples given with SOAP2.2, and all the others I can find on the
> >web, are run using a single SOAP implementation(Ie on one machine)...
>
> > .....So using the AddressBook example, I would want to
> >create a number of Address objects ....which would be created on a
> >device, eg device1.
> >
> >Then I would want to create a GetAddress example on another device,
device2
> ...
>
> I'm not sure what you mean by saying that the examples run on one machine.
> The AddressBook objec, as part of the service, does need to be deployed on
> one particular machine, the server for that service; that service carries
> with it a JVM with a classpath, and samples.addressbook.AddressBook needs
> to be available to that JVM on that machine. However, when you run the
> PutAddress and GetAddress and so on, they communicate with the server via
> http, so they can live on device2, device3, .. deviceN, and the service
> (i.e., the AddressBook object, with whatever Address objects it contains)
> does not know and does not care. Thus I have no trouble running a SOAP
> service on this machine and a client on another machine connected via
> ethernet...but maybe I'm just not understanding the difficulty.
>
> Tom Myers
>
>
