Re: Axis/SOAP proposal for Struts

[Ka-Wai Chan]

This is awesome... I am currently working on a struts app that has to integrate with JAXM.... Any chance that JAXM could be supported some way as well?

Ka-Wai Chan


Robert McIntosh wrote:

I'll keep a lookout for it. I'll have to brush up on Axis in the meantime...

Mike Oliver wrote:

Thanks Robert,
The interest level in this is also exciting to me. Watch for the
"Axis4Struts" project on SourceForge and I look forward to your
participation.

Michael Oliver
AppsAsPeers LLC
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-----Original Message-----
From: Robert McIntosh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, January 17, 2003 11:36 AM
To: Struts Users Mailing List
Subject: Re: Axis/SOAP proposal for Struts

I hear ya! I got excited thinking of the possibilities. I sent an email to one of our clients (a struts user) and our product group about this potentially being a part of a future struts package. With our current plugins for Struts (we have a model framework called eQ!), it really expands our possibilities as well, and the sales/marketing guy will love

that :-)

Robert

Mike Oliver wrote:

Robert,
My thinking exactly! I just didn't want to burden the list with a tome
of every implication of this proposal.

Michael Oliver
AppsAsPeers LLC
7391 S. Bullrider Ave.
Tucson, AZ 85747
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Fax:(520)844-1036


-----Original Message-----
From: Robert McIntosh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, January 17, 2003 10:24 AM
To: Struts Users Mailing List
Subject: Re: Axis/SOAP proposal for Struts

I think this would be a wonderful idea for several reasons.

- For one it would really enable a standalone Swing (maybe even SWT...)

or applet-based client to use the processesing abilities of the struts app in a more defined manner. Or even, dare I say, a .Net client...
- It would also enable application to application communication, which could be a big plus for some enterprises. Imagine, a B2B scenario, or even within an enterprise some app could send a message to JMS, which

is

picked up by a MDB which then sends a SOAP message to a Struts-based application.

I think it would really open up the possibilities and user base for
Struts.

Just my .02
Robert McIntosh

Mike Oliver wrote:

Struts Users,


I would like to propose that Struts be extended to support another

entry

point. The ActionServlet would be augmented by an Axis/SOAP Web
Services Interface to Struts. FormBeans would be part of the payload
for requests. Responses would be generated by Forwards for SOAP.

This

new Axis entry point would do the same work as ActionServlet with the
only significant difference being the construction of the FormBean.
Incoming SOAP Requests would be configured to call the same
RequestHandlers and as far as the actions go they won't know that the
source was an HTML Form or a serialized FormBean.

I feel this will give a great deal of flexibility to Applications

where

they want a Web Browser User Interface as well as Web Services for the
same Application Data Model and Business Logic.



I am planning on doing this anyway, and felt it applicable to this

group

and would offer to share it as a sub project and would welcome
contributions of thought, expertise and code.



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