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At some point it should
be easy to integrate xml-rpc or SOAP into jBoss as a simple servlet. Some ppl
have had success already, but not me yet.
At that point, I would
think it would be a simple matter to expose any ejb method by using a simple
declarative file. The servlet could use simple reflection to perform the
lookup.
jim
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Menon
Sent: Friday, May 04, 2001 7:38 PM
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Subject: Re: [JBoss-user] why so little interest in
SOAP
Hi,
I've been playing around with XML-RPC and SOAP for a while
and think they are fairly decent in terms of the things they open up. But my
apprehensions using XML have been - XML parsing is still non-trivial and
resource intensive, they increase the amount of stuff passed over the wire and
finally I really need to justify to myself the usefulness of an RPC
mechanism!
Probably for B2B scenarios - YES. For integrating between
disparate systems - YES. But to use it indiscriminately would be expensive.
Most often the payload proves much smaller than the tags! EJBs based around an
XML - RPC mechanism? Why? Where would you want to have that? Since the
underlying data format is XML [i.e. Strings] we would need to go about
creating objects and stuff from them and that is also expensive. I really
can't see where you'd want to plug in an XML rpc mechanism into the EJB stuff.
But as I said there might be some situations where you actually might want to
look at SOAP as an option.
My views. Your thoughts?
Vinay
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From: fractals
Sent: Saturday, May 05, 2001 12:27
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To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [JBoss-user] why so
little interest in SOAP
Hi,
This is just to say that I'm surprised not having
read more about SOAP on
this list. I read a little quite a while ago
about this simple yet amazing
technology, but I thought it was some kind
of M$ thing and so got
disinterested by it. Now that I've looked it from
a bit closer, I think it
really is a great thing ! Not only because it
lets Java applications talk to
all other platforms and languages, but
also because of its capability to
deploy web applications that behave as
services (yeah, I know this is M$
goo, but the word say it best).
Apparently there's so little interest in
this technology from the EJB
community that the ZOAP project seems to be
dead, and that the Apache
SOAP team seems to be marginally interested in
developing EJB support
(they *did* work on that, but in my own short
experience it works on
windows and not on linux !!!).
Because of the very little overhead
associated with this kind of invocation
(AFAIK), I think it could even be
the default method for J2EE clients
accessing remote EJB's, but that's
just an idea...
Somebody thinking like me
???
Candide
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