Joaquim,
That sounds like a great idea! I had thought of SOAP initially then
moved on. But, to be honest what I've come up with so far looks
suspiciously like SOAP :)
I would be very interested in seeing any code examples anyone might have
that has tried this or something similar. No need to reinvent the wheel :)
I would also be willing to share anything that I come up with.
Mike
Joaquim Carvalho wrote:
> 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.
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