Hi Dennis, It sounds very similar to what I've been looking at but at a bigger, full web-app type Descriptor. So perhaps there is room for both, a simplified UI-service call type development, like I've been working on and the more full-blown system that you've made some progress with.
If you do happen to come across the code and don't mind me having a look at it, I'd be very grateful Cheers Calum On 23 Feb 2011, at 17:52, Dennis Reedy <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Calum, > > We used to have something similar to this, called a WARDescriptor. The > WARDescriptor acted just like the UIDescriptor, except it pointed to a .war > file, that would be dynamically installed by a servlet running in Tomcat (or > Jetty, or ...). The first rollout was actually provided to enable MIDLet (via > CLDC) to use XML to the provisioned WAR that would then use discovered > services in the backend. > > The only custom thing we had to do to the 'stock' Tomcat was to install our > 'bootstrap' servlet, that would discover services that had advertised a > WARDescriptor, the grab the WAR and install it. It seems that we may be > thinking along the same lines. Let me know if you're interested in any this > stuff, I think I have it lying around someplace... > > Dennis > > On Feb 23, 2011, at 914AM, Calum Shaw-Mackay wrote: > >> Last week I posted abut the possibility of adapting ServiceUI to add HTML UI >> as an option to both service administration and simplified service usage >> where the web server contains the java proxies for the services. In this way >> this would allow Jini service invocations (after a fashion) to pass the >> firewall and non-java device barriers ( note there's no requirement to >> actually usqe a full HTML UI but it could be adapted to REST calls that just >> send back raw data to a client ) >> >> So far I've got an embedded Jetty server with a servlet that performs a >> simple Jini Discovery loop) but because it's embedded i can run it under a >> security policy and RMISecurityManager, a further piece is likely to be a >> simple forwarding proxy servlet that can be run in standard web servers >> without needing any policy/security changes to be made to existing server >> installations. >> >> I think that this could well be a way of integrating outside of java, >> especially given the changes in web development since the inception of >> ServiceUI and Jini >> >> Calum >> >> Sent from my iPad >> >> On 22 Feb 2011, at 22:01, MICHAEL MCGRADY <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> What work in JINI/River has been done with iphones, etc? Can some one >>> steer me to a bunch of information? Thanks. >>> >>> MG >>> >>> >>> Michael McGrady >>> Chief Architect >>> Topia Technology, Inc. >>> Cel 1.253.720.3365 >>> Work 1.253.572.9712 extension 2037 >>> [email protected] >>> >>> >>> >
