Awesome work, Marcus, but can you post the ComposerReader?
Anybody else but me finds this should make its way into HEAD? Giacomo On Wed, 4 Sep 2002, Marcus Crafter wrote: > Hi All, > > Hope all is well. > > After working through some interesting issues :) I've updated the > SOAP server for Cocoon that I've been working on in the following > areas: > > o SOAP server reader is now based on Axis, rather than Apache SOAP. > > o Helper abstract classes have been written allowing webservices > to implement LogEnabled and Composable. > > o Several webservices are now included: > > o cache (allows you to remotely manipulate the Cocoon cache > via soap, eg. clear it) > > o memory (allows you to view the total and free amount of > memory in your Cocoon application, also allows you > to remotely invoke the garbarge collector) > > o system (allows you to inspect the hardware your server > is running on) > > o process (allows you to run a system process on the server > and view the output. eg. ps, uptime, df, etc) > > o Included a small sample webapp which allows you to list the > services currently deployed. > > o Moved entire source over to scratchpad, rather than core > > The source with libraries is now much larger than the original version, > I'll make it available via http somewhere and enter a bugzilla patch. > > Comments, suggestions more than welcome. > > Cheers, > > Marcus > > On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 04:30:09PM +0200, Marcus Crafter wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > Hope all is well. > > > > Over the past couple of days I've been working on adding the > > ability for a Cocoon application to serve SOAP requests. > > > > The motivation for this work came from: > > > > o The need to share business logic data with other projects, ie. > > B2B communcation. > > > > o The desire to build an administration application and remotely query > > a live system about its status. > > > > Instead of building a second server into our application (ie. RMI, > > CORBA, etc), I thought it might be better to use SOAP for this for > > several reasons, mainly since servlet based Cocoon applications are > > really HTTP oriented servers anyway. > > > > The code adding this functionality is in bugzilla, #11728. > > > > My hope is that this feature is of use for others too. > > > > Essentially, I took the RPCRouterServlet from the Apache SOAP > > project and ported it to Cocoon as a Reader, which in effect > > allows you to register SOAP services within your Cocoon app, and > > serve data to other clients. > > > > The reader can be configured in the sitemap as follows: > > > > <!-- Defines a SOAP RPC reader that will serve SOAP requests via HTTP-POST. > > > > 'managed-services' defines a list of Apache SOAP deployment descriptors > > that will be automatically deployed at startup and undeployed at > > shutdown of this reader. > > --> > > <map:reader logger="sitemap.reader.soap-rpc" name="soap-rpc" > > src="org.apache.cocoon.reading.SoapRPCReader"> > > <managed-services> > > <descriptor >src="resource://org/apache/cocoon/components/soap/services/memory/DeploymentDescriptor.xml"/> > > </managed-services> > > </map:reader> > > > > Consult the javadocs for the full option set which includes the > > ability to set an EnvelopeEditorFactory, and custom SOAP server xml > > config file. > > > > The pipeline match is quite simple like most readers: > > > > <!-- Match SOAP RPC Router requests --> > > <map:match pattern="rpcrouter"> > > <map:read type="soap-rpc" mime-type="text/xml"/> > > </map:match> > > > > With these 2 sections added to your sitemap, you can then make > > HTTP-POST queries to the above pipeline to deploy, list, invoke or > > undeploy particular SOAP services from your Cocoon app. The > > ServiceManagerClient class that comes with Apache SOAP is quite > > useful for this. > > > > I've included an example service with my patch which allows a > > remote client to query the amount of free & total memory the remote > > Cocoon app currently has, and also allows a client to invoke the > > garbage collector on the remote application. > > > > For those interested have a look at the class and deployment > > descriptor in the o/a/c/components/soap/services/memory directory, > > and the webapps/samples/soap directory. > > > > The SoapRPCReader also adds the Cocoon request, response, context > > and ComponentManager to the SOAP request context, which means it's > > possible for your SOAP services to access any avalon components you may > > have written, and also session data that may be relevant for the > > particular request. Have a look at the > > o/a/c/components/soap/services/template directory for an example of > > this. > > > > Normal SOAP services (ie. cocoon independant) can also be deployed, > > including those implemented in other languages via BSF support. The > > Apache SOAP documentation describes how this can be done. > > > > The reader itself requires the presence of the Apache SOAP jar > > (2.3.1 used during development), and the SUN activation and > > javamail jar. I've modified the build.xml so that the reader and > > associated services are only built if these libraries are present. > > > > I'm now looking at the various statistical & administration > > information we might like to provide from Cocoon, hopefully in > > combination with the instrumentation interfaces from Excalibur. > > > > Ok, so I hope its of use for more people that just me, if there's any > > questions, comments, feel free to ask. > > > > Cheers, > > > > Marcus > > > > -- > > ..... > > ,,$$$$$$$$$, Marcus Crafter > > ;$' '$$$$: Computer Systems Engineer > > $: $$$$: ManageSoft GmbH > > $ o_)$$$: 82-84 Mainzer Landstrasse > > ;$, _/\ &&:' 60327 Frankfurt Germany > > ' /( &&& > > \_&&&&' > > &&&&. > > &&&&&&&: > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
