Hi all,
first, I'm new to CXF, so forgive my lack of detailed knowledge.
I was wondering about whether you think it is a good idea to add support for
stateful services to CXF.
By "stateful" I mean you have multiple instances of a services sitting behind a
common
frontend. These instances are disambiguated by some unique ID. Individual
instances can be addressed
using WS-Addressing. The instances are kept alive between service calls (either
in memory or persisted to a database).
For example, you might have a "bank account service"
@Stateful @WebService
public class BankAccount{
@Unique
public String accountNumber;
private Balance balance;
@WebMethod
GetBalanceResponse public getBalance(GetBalanceRequest in){...}
}
There's a similar thing in Sun's JAX-WS RI, see
http://weblogs.java.net/blog/kohsuke/archive/2006/10/stateful_web_se.html
which I think is fairly inflexible and can be greatly improved.
Support for this style of services would be useful for implementing specs such
as WS-RF on top of CXF.
I have implemented WS-RF on top of XFire, so I have some experience with this
stuff, and would
very much like to give this a try with CXF.
What do you think?
Best regards,
Bernd.
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Dr. Bernd Schuller
Central Institute for Applied Mathematics
Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH
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