On 4/19/12 2:43 PM, Jeffrey L McCain wrote:
Hello,
I've been exploring various UDDI solutions and I think jUDDIv3 is a
good solution, but I have some concerns.
1) I've seen it stated that "jUDDIv3 only supports the UDDI v3
protocol". I've seen this in action as I cannot use the Eclipse Web
Services Explorer or the Oracle Service Bus 11g to connect to jUDDIv3.
It would seem that there are tons of UDDIv2-based products already out
there and that jUDDIv3 not supporting them is a big limitation. The
problem seems simple (on the surface) to solve...allowing the old
v2-namespace-service calls to still occur in the jUDDIv3...basically
exposing the old v2 services, but call the newer implementation code?
Is there a reason this was not allowed (in the spec)?
There is no reason other then time to implement. jUDDIv3 is JAX-WS/JAXB
based, jUDDI v2 had a home grown UDDI Servlet. It should not be that
hard to make it speak UDDI v2. In fact the wrapper classes for JAXR
pretty much do this already. So you could use that to build a v2 proxy.
Or extent the JAX-WS/JAXB layer itself to support UDDI v2, which would
be the cleanest option.
2) There is a nice .class under development in the uddi-client code
called "WSDL2UDDI.java", but it only implements 2 of the 5 parts
required to represent a Web Service in the UDDI data structure. Is
anybody working on this currently? (I know that since this is
open-source I should finish it myself ;) and submit it, but before I
spend time on it, I'd like to know if its already in the
works...especially since it was last touched in about January?)
Yes this works it is in use by the BPEL2UDDI, which is used by the
Riftsaw/Apache ODE project to register BPEL processes. It'd be great to
get a contribution to finish the WSDL2UDDI class.
3) The portal console is nice, but it does not replace the
functionality that was in the v2 console which let you invoke every
method. The only way to publish a service now is programatically. Is
there anything in the works on this one?
You can use tooling like SOAPUI which does pretty much the same as the
old v2 console. That said,
we'd love to add create/edit functionality to the portal console, and
welcome contributions. Note that we've developed the annotations, so you
can slap UDDI annotations on your webservices to do auto-registration on
deployment of the services.
Thanks!
Jeffrey L. McCain
Hope this helps.
Cheers,
--Kurt
