Re: XForm integration with the RestLet framework possible?
I don't know very well about OPS. I just like to let you know that I have been able to integrate successfully (so far) Saxon and Restlet. I might publish it as an extension. Basically, Restlet does the handling of requests delegating processing to xqueries. All the application logic and presentation logic is written with xquery. I don't really know what kind of framework you would like to use to connect to your datasources but I think that Restlet has no builtin for these concerns. Hope it helps, Rémi On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 1:30 AM, ilango [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Could you elaborate more on this Resource subclass? thanks ilango --- On *Mon, 7/7/08, Avi Flax [EMAIL PROTECTED]* wrote: From: Avi Flax [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: XForm integration with the RestLet framework possible? To: discuss@restlet.tigris.org Date: Monday, July 7, 2008, 3:39 PM On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 3:41 PM, ilango [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have an XForm built on the OPS XForms processor. Rather than use the OPS pipelines for connecting my XForms to datasources I would like to use the Restlet Framework to connect my XForm fields to datasources like MySQL, a Web Service, XML databases like eXist, etc. I would like to get XML data into my XForm, regardless of the type of datasource. I'm not feeling this. Not sure this is something that the framework, or even an extension, should handle. Could be a slippery slope towards the framework trying to be everything for everyone. Why not just write the glue yourself in a Resource subclass? -- Avi Flax » Lead Technologist » Partner » Arc90 » http://arc90.com
RE: XForm integration with the RestLet framework possible?
Hi all, The closest RFE we have for Ilango's concern is this one: Support XQuery and XForms http://restlet.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=8 I'm not sure yet how exactly the framework could help, but this might be worth exploring. The RFE points to an interesting article: XRX: Simple, Elegant, Disruptive http://www.oreillynet.com/xml/blog/2008/05/xrx_a_simple_elegant_disruptiv_1.html XForms on the client REST interfaces and XQuery on the server Best regards, Jerome _ De : Rémi Dewitte [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Envoyé : mardi 8 juillet 2008 09:30 À : discuss@restlet.tigris.org Objet : Re: XForm integration with the RestLet framework possible? I don't know very well about OPS. I just like to let you know that I have been able to integrate successfully (so far) Saxon and Restlet. I might publish it as an extension. Basically, Restlet does the handling of requests delegating processing to xqueries. All the application logic and presentation logic is written with xquery. I don't really know what kind of framework you would like to use to connect to your datasources but I think that Restlet has no builtin for these concerns. Hope it helps, Rémi On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 1:30 AM, ilango [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Could you elaborate more on this Resource subclass? thanks ilango --- On Mon, 7/7/08, Avi Flax [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Avi Flax [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: XForm integration with the RestLet framework possible? To: discuss@restlet.tigris.org Date: Monday, July 7, 2008, 3:39 PM On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 3:41 PM, ilango [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have an XForm built on the OPS XForms processor. Rather than use the OPS pipelines for connecting my XForms to datasources I would like to use the Restlet Framework to connect my XForm fields to datasources like MySQL, a Web Service, XML databases like eXist, etc. I would like to get XML data into my XForm, regardless of the type of datasource. I'm not feeling this. Not sure this is something that the framework, or even an extension, should handle. Could be a slippery slope towards the framework trying to be everything for everyone. Why not just write the glue yourself in a Resource subclass? -- Avi Flax » Lead Technologist » Partner » Arc90 » http://arc90.com
Re: XForm integration with the RestLet framework possible?
On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 7:30 PM, ilango [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could you elaborate more on this Resource subclass? See: http://www.restlet.org/documentation/1.0/firstResource or:http://www.restlet.org/documentation/1.1/firstResource depending on which version of Restlet you're using.
Re: XForm integration with the RestLet framework possible?
Hi, In our system, we use content-type negotiation to serve our own content-type (XML-based) to the client API and XHTML to web-browsers. An XSLT transform to produce some XHTML with XForms and incorporate the data into the XForm instance. The browser-based interface was originally intended to be used for debugging the service, thus we used the Mozilla XForms plugin in Firefox 2, which was fine for a handful of developers/testers. The XML data mostly comes from a relational database (Oracle/PostgreSQL) via Hibernate (unfortunately, Hibernate doesn't handle Oracle's XmlType, so we resort to a few tricks). Since Firefox 3, this plugin not available for FF3, so I've tried FormFaces(.com), which essentially transforms the XForms into HTML forms with JavaScript. It works with more browsers (Firefox 2, Safari 3, IE 7) but not all (IE 8b2, Firefox 3, Opera). I've had a quick look at Shiba last week, but haven't had time to investigate it further; it seems it could work well, but I was wondering how its notion of session would work out. I've only had a briefer look at Oberon, but I'd be keen on seeing how it could work with Restlet. Best wishes, Bruno. Rémi Dewitte wrote: I don't know very well about OPS. I just like to let you know that I have been able to integrate successfully (so far) Saxon and Restlet. I might publish it as an extension. Basically, Restlet does the handling of requests delegating processing to xqueries. All the application logic and presentation logic is written with xquery. I don't really know what kind of framework you would like to use to connect to your datasources but I think that Restlet has no builtin for these concerns. Hope it helps, Rémi On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 1:30 AM, ilango [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Could you elaborate more on this Resource subclass? thanks ilango --- On *Mon, 7/7/08, Avi Flax /[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/* wrote: From: Avi Flax [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: XForm integration with the RestLet framework possible? To: discuss@restlet.tigris.org mailto:discuss@restlet.tigris.org Date: Monday, July 7, 2008, 3:39 PM On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 3:41 PM, ilango [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have an XForm built on the OPS XForms processor. Rather than use the OPS pipelines for connecting my XForms to datasources I would like to use the Restlet Framework to connect my XForm fields to datasources like MySQL, a Web Service, XML databases like eXist, etc. I would like to get XML data into my XForm, regardless of the type of datasource. I'm not feeling this. Not sure this is something that the framework, or even an extension, should handle. Could be a slippery slope towards the framework trying to be everything for everyone. Why not just write the glue yourself in a Resource subclass? -- Avi Flax » Lead Technologist » Partner » Arc90 » http://arc90.com
