You can wrap java in .asp objects.
Try http://www.4guysfromrolla.com/webtech/080999-1.shtml
(I have never used asp).
Second alternative:
make your cocoon classes to webservices. That should not be very
difficult, as these classes will be nearly webservices: they produce
XML. Call webservices from your .asp application.
Jos
On Tue, 2009-09-29 at 10:55 -0400, Paul Joseph wrote:
> Jos,
>
> Thank you.
>
> But I am not clear on how the method is made externally available to an
> application running in its own environment.
>
> Ie. the environments (say Tomcat for Cocoon and some Microsoft
> environment for the ASP app) are different.
>
> How, in the example you kindly provided below, would I call the new
> method that returns the array ie.
>
> public void searchTerms(ContentHandler ch, byte[] nb, String language,
> String smode, boolean nonpreferred)
>
> thx.
> Paul
>
> Jos Snellings wrote:
> > Here is a snippet ... this is a method from an object
> > "ThesaurusBrowser". The method searches a number of terms from the
> > thesaurus, that, say, start with a given substring:
> >
> > public void searchTerms(ContentHandler ch, byte[] nb, String language,
> > String smode, boolean nonpreferred)
> > {
> > AttributesImpl attr = new AttributesImpl();
> > int hits = 0;
> > ResultSet rs = null;
> > // here we are going to form a query and execute it.
> > rs = p.executeQuery();
> > ResultSetMetaData rsmd = rs.getMetaData();
> >
> > while (rs.next()) {
> > hits++;
> >
> > attr.addAttribute("","id","id","CDATA",rs.getString("id"));
> > if (nonpreferred)
> > attr.addAttribute("","npt","npt","CDATA","1");
> > ch.startElement("","term","term",attr);
> > attr.clear();
> > for (int i=1; i <= rsmd.getColumnCount(); i++) {
> > String tagname = rsmd.getColumnName(i);
> > ch.startElement("",tagname,tagname,attr);
> > String value = rs.getString(i);
> > if (value != null)
> > ch.characters(value.toCharArray(),0,value.length());
> > ch.endElement("",tagname,tagname);
> > }
> > ch.endElement("","term","term");
> > }
> >
> > rs.close();
> > p.close();
> > }
> > ------------------------------------------------
> > I just display the relevant part: This code produces XML
> > <term id="234" term="someterm" context="somecontext" nonPreferred="0"/>
> > ...
> > Change it to an alternative that returns an array of Term
> > ------------------------------------------------------
> > public Concept[] searchTerms(byte[]nb, String language, String smode,
> > boolean nonPreferred) {
> > int hits = 0;
> >
> > ResultSet rs = null;
> > // here we are going to form a query and execute it.
> > rs = p.executeQuery();
> > ResultSetMetaData rsmd = rs.getMetaData();
> > Vector<Concept> VTerms = new Vector<Concept>();
> > while (rs.next()) {
> > hits++;
> > Concept T = new Concept T();
> > T.setId(rs.getInt(1));
> > T.setTerm(rs.getString(2));
> > T.setContext(rs.getString(3));
> > T.setNonPreferred(rs.getString(4));
> > VTerms.addElement(T);
> > }
> >
> > rs.close();
> > p.close();
> >
> > Concept[] concepts = new Concept[C.size()];
> > for (int j=0; j<C.size();j++) concepts[j] = (Concept)
> > VTerms.elementAt(j);
> > return concepts;
> > }
> >
> > }
> >
> >
> >
> > }
> >
> > And you could then modify your Cocoon method to:
> >
> > public void searchTerms(ContentHandler ch, byte[] nb, String language,
> > String smode, boolean nonpreferred)
> > {
> > Concept[] hits = searchTerms(nb, language, smode, nonpreferred);
> > AttributesImpl attr = new AttributesImpl();
> >
> > for (hit : hits) {
> > attr.addAttribute( ... );
> >
> > ...
> > ch.startElement(""
> > attr.clear();
> > }
> >
> > that way extending the use and insulating the SAX interface. One step
> > further is creating separate cocoon classes, that only do the SAX
> > production thus universalizing your business model.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Tue, 2009-09-29 at 09:31 -0400, Paul Joseph wrote:
> >
> >> Thank Jos...I follow the general concept...would you know of any example
> >> that I could take a look at?
> >>
> >> thx.
> >> Paul
> >>
> >> Jos Snellings wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hi Paul,
> >>>
> >>> Classes that live in a Cocoon environment will typically send their
> >>> output via SAX events. They would take a "ContentHandler" or
> >>> "XMLConsumer" as a parameter and call
> >>> startElement/endElement/characters.
> >>> There might exist an insulation layer between the SAX-world and the
> >>> objects properly.
> >>>
> >>> If you extend these classes with methods that return objects, and arrays
> >>> of objects, they become available to other "Views".
> >>>
> >>> Does this answer make sense to you?
> >>>
> >>> Best,
> >>> Jos
> >>>
> >>> On Tue, 2009-09-29 at 06:33 -0400, Paul Joseph wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> Hi there,
> >>>>
> >>>> What is the best way to make business functionality available in the
> >>>> Java tier of my Cocoon application available available to another
> >>>> application written in say ASP?
> >>>>
> >>>> Is sharing Cocoon applications java tier functionality with other apps.
> >>>> possible and are there any "easy" ways to do this?
> >>>>
> >>>> thx.
> >>>> Paul
> >>>>
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