RE: Perhaps there will be a form for invoking the service here...

[Alan Gordie]

Title: Perhaps there will be a form for invoking the service here...

Yes, it is just a placeholder for forthcoming functionality.   I've been working on a "Service Manager" GUI for Axis and, as soon as I can complete some integration work with SimpleAxisServer, it should be available in a nightly build in the next week or so.  It doesn't currently support invoking the service methods, but it it allows you to browse through all deployed services and lists the method and parameters information for each.  I'm pasting in my post to axis-dev from last week into this message for you to look over in hopes that you folks will be willing to provide some feedback on what you would like to see added in this area.   Also, I've also jacked in a very basic implementation of WSIL for obtaining a list of deployed services from Axis via HTTP GET per the IBM spec located here.   http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/webservices/library/ws-wsilspec.html?dwzone=webservices --------------------------------- Here's a copy of my post to axis-dev from last week re:  new Service Manager functionality.   First off, thanks to Glen Daniels for creating the ServiceDesc/Metadata system that I'm using to accomplish this.   Now, for the current feature list...   * pointing your browser to /axis/servlet/AxisServlet will generate a list of deployed services that are links to the details for each service * selecting a service will display all operations for that service (I'm not using .getAllowedMethods() yet, only .getOperations() this will change soon) * selecting an operation will display the parameter list and return type for the selected operation And, of course, there are many TODO's.. * decouple the HTML from the logic * factor this code into a separate class * add support for generating WSIL (need a "published" attribute at the ServiceDesc level...also in WSDD) * add support for deploying/undeploying services * add support for managing allowedMethods * display sample SOAP XML for request/response for each operation * HOLY GRAIL == operation invocation! * need to move all static strings into the resource table * user-friendly service description would be nice * description of each method would also be nice -----Original Message----- From: Newman, Scott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, April 12, 2002 11:58 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Perhaps there will be a form for invoking the service here... It means nobody has coded a form to test the webservice from a browser yet.   It's still under development, so it's probably just a developer note.    -----Original Message----- From: Stefano Mainardi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 12 April, 2002 10:18 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Perhaps there will be a form for invoking the service here...   Hello everybody I'm trying to make a web service I wrote using Axis also avaiable via web browser. When I go to the web service page I get this:   /axis-beta1/services/MyService Hi there, this is an AXIS service! Perhaps there will be a form for invoking the service here... MyService worked fine if called by a java client so I tried to create a page posting a form containing the (very simple) data required by MyService, but without sucess. Can anyone help me explaining what "Perhaps there will be a form for invoking the service here... " means? Is there something I need to set to make the form automagically appear on the page or the message just means that in a future the AxisServlet will be able to automagically generate a form to call the web service via browser, just like .Net does? Thanks              Stefano Mainardi Sapient Via Crocefisso, 19              Milano, 20122 Italia              +39 02.58.217.1 desk              +39 02.58.217.217 fax              www.sapient.it