--- "Craig R. McClanahan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thu, 17 Oct 2002, Rohra, Prakash N. ,,DMDC/BEAU > wrote: > > > Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 11:23:29 -0400 > > From: "Rohra, Prakash N. ,,DMDC/BEAU" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Reply-To: Struts Users Mailing List > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: 'Struts Users Mailing List' > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Subject: RE: Can V in MVC be Swing in Struts? > > > > We have a similar situation where Server side > Struts components (Actions and > > JavaBean business components) will be accessed by > a client Swing Java > > application (not a browser). > > > > We are also looking at various alternatives like > SOAP, XML-RPC or simple > > HTTP POST requests (with XML data or Serialized > objects). > > > > I have 2 questions: > > > > (1) Does STRUTS support sending serialized VO > objects (as against HTML or > > XML text strings) back and forth between client > app and server. What needs > > to be changed in STRUTS components to suport this? > > > > There are at least two different ways to accomplish > this: > > * Have your Action write the XML output directly to > the response, > and then return null (indicates that the response > has been completed, > so no forwarding is necessary). > > * Have the JSP pages you forward to (for the view) > render "text/xml" > instead of "text/html". You won't be using the > struts-html tags > in this scenario, but you'll be able to fill in > dynamic parts of > the response with things like <bean:write> or > <bean:message>: > > <customer> > ... > <name><bean:write name="customer" > property="name"/></name> > ... > </customer> > > In some scenarios, you will also want to transform > the XML output > depending on what the user agent is, or for other > similar reasons. Check > out the STXX framework (search in Google to find > it), which layers on top > of Struts and lets you specify a pipeline of XSLT > transformations to be > performed on the response that your app itself > generates. >
You didn't read the question correctly. The question is: Does STRUTS support sending serialized VO objects (as against HTML or XML text strings) back and forth between client app and server. > > (2) Does SOAP (Web services) support client > sessions ? i.e. will I be able > > to maintain individual client's session state > (which might be full business > > object JavaBeans) or Web services are suited for > state-less method calls?? > > Any pointers will be appriciated ?? > > > > SOAP is generally designed to be stateless -- I know > that during the > design of JAX-RPC (the standard Java API for > SOAP-based web services), > there was discussion of supporting HTTP sessions but > do not remember how > that came out. > > If you are rolling your own XML output (per one of > the suggestions above), > and your client is aware of how servlet-based > sessions work, you can > support stateful transactions by having your client > include the > appropriate cookie (or the jsessionid path > parameter) in the requests that > it sends. > > In either scenario, this is not likely to be > interoperable with > non-servlet-API based SOAP servers, or with clients > that don't understand > servlet sessions. > > > thanks > > > > Craig > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > <mailto:struts-user-unsubscribe@;jakarta.apache.org> > For additional commands, e-mail: > <mailto:struts-user-help@;jakarta.apache.org> > ______________________________________________________________________ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:struts-user-unsubscribe@;jakarta.apache.org> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:struts-user-help@;jakarta.apache.org>
