Re: Automating web service

[Jim Murphy]

Business Process Execution Language is a higher level Web Services 
technology.  It describes how to glue together a series of web services 
message exchanges.  In this sense, since you can implement web services 
in any language on any platform, its a higher level technology than 
Java, C++, .NET.

Also I'd consider looking at WS-Eventing.  Its sounds like that may be 
what you're after.  Not sure where the apache community is on this but 
it may give you some ideas if you had to implement this stuff yourself.

WS-Eventing
IBM, BEA, Computer Associates, Microsoft, Sun Microsystems, TIBCO
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/webservices/library/specification/ws-eventing/
WS-Eventing for Dummies Blog post - no offense intended :)
http://blogs.msdn.com/bwill/archive/2004/02/10/70964.aspx
Regards
Jim Murphy
Mindreef, Inc.

Suzy Fynes wrote:
I never used BPEL before, is it compatible with java or is it something
works on its own?
-----Original Message-----
From: Daniel Beland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: 28 October 2004 13:37
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: Automating web service


Wouldn't it be easier with BPEL?
Some kind of suscribe/publish message queue?
ActiveBPEL is a free open source BPEL orchestrator which uses axis to
produce their web services. It would not be too hard to adapt your
current
web services with it.
Daniel

The client probably needs to register once - otherwise how would the
service know where to send the stuff? So, a probable solution can be:
1. The client registers once and provides some means (some URI) where
the server will send its stuff - shouldn't be a synchronous procedure
-
the server will either send something via ftp/gridFTP/SMTP etc...if
you
make this synchronous, it means the client will also have to be
running...
2. The server continues to run, and sends the object or whatever at
specific times - can be implemented using timers/counters...
Seems do-able...
Cheers
Arijit
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        From: Suzy Fynes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
        Sent: 28 October 2004 12:11
        To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
        Subject: RE: Automating web service
    Kinda of but an object would be sent to the client server.
        Is it do-able?
        -----Original Message-----
        From: Arijit Mukherjee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
        Sent: 28 October 2004 12:10
        To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
        Subject: RE: Automating web service
        Sounds like a notification service...
        Cheers
        Arijit
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                From: Suzy Fynes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
                Sent: 28 October 2004 12:08
                To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
                Subject: Automating web service
            Hi,
                Can anyone tell me if its possible to automate an axis
web service i.e. as oppose to a client making a request when they want
information that the service sends out the information daily
                Thanks
                Suzy