Re: How to Wrap a Collection with IBM WSTK?

[Christoph C. Cemper / privat]

Graham,

AFAIK Glue goes the "Make a java-class visible" way.

That means, you give it a java-class and all the public methods are exposed
as a web service via
dynamically generated WSDL, proxy, etc..

Although I find this way absolutely cool and very convenient (had a WS
exposed with a preview version
only in a few minutes - wow ) I am not sure if that is what leads to a
reusable web service.

For the reason where I want to specify an abstract interface WSDL which is
"implemented" by other
specific Web Service Implementations I guess we could get problems with the
dynamic generation.

What do you think about the approach to do Web Service interface design
top-down, meaning from the
WSDL down to the code?

Kind regards,
Christoph C. Cemper


----- Original Message -----
From: "graham glass" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Christoph C. Cemper / privat"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2001 8:36 AM
Subject: RE: How to Wrap a Collection with IBM WSTK?


> try GLUE from http://www.themindelectric.com
> it might have what you need, and is free for most commercial uses.
>
> cheers,
> graham
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christoph C. Cemper / privat [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2001 1:24 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: How to Wrap a Collection with IBM WSTK?
>
>
> IBM WSTK 2.3 has no support for complex types which will need here.
>
> We were troubling round with a few tools for "Web Service Generation" and
> finally
> came to the conclusion, that
>
>     - interoperability
>     - non-proprietarity
>     - feature-support
>
> make a manual implementation of WSDL + proxy + + necessary...
>
> AFAIK there is no "solution", just a bunch of tools that help you here and
> there with a Quote-Webservice
> or a Helloworld-Web Service, but as soon as you tend to implement real
> applications you reach the
> limit of those "point-and-click"-programming tools...
>
> But I don't know about future versions of WSTK - according to an IBM guy
> (Tony) the new WSTK should
> support much more things.
>
> This information/evaluation is about 4 weeks old and might be superseded
by
> better/newer products - any help/infos appreciated (non-commercial)
>
>
> hope this helps,
> christoph c. cemper
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2001 5:16 PM
> Subject: How to Wrap a Collection with IBM WSTK?
>
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > when I try to create a web service from a Java class, I cannot solve
> > the following problem:
> > In a method with a self-defined object as return type, the object
contains
> > a java.util.Vector. And whenever a vector is used or an object
> > containing a vector, the WSTK serviceWizard wants to wrap an
> > additional Object[] array, which leads to an error.
> > Does anyone know if other collection types work better, or is there
> > another way to get along with this?
> >
> > Thanks in advance
> > Michael Rohde
> >
> >
>
>