Hi,
My 2 cents.... I think that is a great idea!!!!
Do u think that using a filter for the response will help?
Last year I did something similar (wrote a Struts-based webapp
That I was talking to using J2ME and KSOAP..but all I was able
To do was to extend existing action and dump the generated XML
Into the response.getWriter().write()... I was using axis btw for
XML stuff on the serverside)
Regards
marco
-----Original Message-----
From: Frank Zammetti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 02 June 2004 21:29
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RFC: Strus Web Service Enablement
Hello all... I wanted to post this here and get any comments that people
had
so I could decide where to go with it...
For the past two days I've been working on a mechanism that would allow
you
to expose existing Struts-based business logic as Web Services without
changing any existing code. What I offer here is a first approximation
of
that idea.
If you might be interested in this, you can download the first iteration
of
the project at http://www.omnytex.com/wst.zip
This archive is a sample webapp in exploded format. Just unzip it to
your
webapps directory of your chosen app server and you should be good to
go.
I've only tried it on Tomcat however, so anything else is unknown.
In a nutshell, what I've done is written a custom subclass of
RequestProcessor. This version will recognize a SOAP-based Web Service
request, "unroll" the request, and hand it off to a specified Action.
As
far as the Action is concerned, it looks just like a regular HTTP form
submission, so it processes same as before. Note that the request is
forwarded back through ActionServlet, so anything you do should still
work.
The RequestProcessor then overrides the destination ActionForward that
the
Action returns, and instead sends it to a special JSP, which renders the
response XML. The response type is set properly, and the generated XML
is
returned. The XML it generates simply dumps all members of the
ActionForm,
so it's not very smart right now, but as I said, this is a first
approximation of the idea.
So, in the end, you should be able to expose any existing Actions as Web
Services without changing them. Everything you need is included, except
for
a JDK, but I assume you have that already (!), including a dirt-simple
test
client. It's not a true SOAP client, but it gets the job done.
Once you unzip the archive, I suggest reading the readme.txt file in the
/source directory. This goes into a bit more detail on everything, as
well
as explaining how to use this in your own application. I should also
note
that this RequestProcessor is transparent to non-Web Service requests,
i.e.,
you can use it in your existing apps without changing anything whether
you
expose anything as a service or not.
I thank anyone in advance that checks this out. Please send me any
comments
or suggestions you may have either to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or just post
them here.
My hope is that given some time to refine this it will be tight enough
and
useful enough that maybe I can present it to the developer list for
possible
inclusion in the base Struts distro. That's of course a ways off, if it
ever reaches that point, but it's a start I think.
Good day to all!
Frank
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