remove me from the group
thanks
Jay
-----Original Message-----
From: Joaquim Carvalho [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2001 5:28 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: XSL instead of JSP
I think one way to go would be to implement a SOAP layer on top of
struts.
SOAP is a protocol to expose the functionality of an application to a
remote client through the use of XML requests/and answers travelling on
top of http. Typically a SOAP client constructs a remote call to the
server much in the same way as a web form is filled with information in
a browser. A post of this xml call could be sent to a struts app where
it would be decoded in the same way a form is, creating the form beans
and all that. The struts app them, instead of rendering the answer in
HTML would render it in XML according to the SOAP answer specs. The
client application can be done in anything that can write and read to
http connection.
Check the SOAP project at xml.apache.org to get the idea of the thing
although that particular project is not directly usefull in this context.
Some time ago I though of this and even inquired the list if this
SOAP/STRUTS idea was interesting but got no feed back and moved to
other things. My recollection is that it would be easy to extend struts
to recognize a XML post besides of a Form Post and so SOAP and Struts
could be easily mingled.
I have just finished a project of converting a legacy C web app to a
SOAP/Web app and the result is very encouraging. The same code that is
answering the direct browser requests also handles requests from clients
written in VisualBasic. We even have APSs as XML clients of our app.
On Monday, May 7, 2001, at 10:24 PM, Mike Williams wrote:
> Guess I'll add my 2 cents :) I'm also researching using XML in the
> view component of struts.
>
> My needs may be a little off from what you're looking at though. We
> have a application that currently runs as a web app. However, some of
> our clients are a bit spoiled to the GUI of a desktop app. So, I need
> to leverage our current expertise in servlets to interact with a
> desktop application. That's where I hope XML will come into play.
>
> The idea is to use Struts as the framework since we will probably still
> have some clients using the web based system. Hey, that's the power of
> the MVC pattern after all. You can easily plug a different view in and
> everyone is happy :)
>
> XML will basically be a messaging protocol between the client and
> server.
