Object Oriented Programmer Syndrome, aka OOPS. I forgot to say this is up on the web and you can play (not abuse please, it is my pipe/bandwidth) at:
http://soap2k.appsaspeers.com:8080/struts-example/ Logon and enter your registration info and then go back to Edit Registration and change the URL from http://soap2k.appsaspeers.com:8080/struts-example/editRegistration.do?ac tion=Edit to http://soap2k.appsaspeers.com:8080/struts-example/AxisEditRegistration.d o?action=Edit And see what you get. In the example below the strutsURL would be "http://soap2k.appsaspeers.com:8080/struts-example/editRegistration.do"; There would be one name value pair for "action=Edit" and the SOAP response payload would be the same xml you get from the above URL. So I am sure you are all asking, if it is that easy, why Axis, why WSDL? The answer is that when we are done, the Axis4Struts components shouldn't need to be changed to access almost any struts unmodified action/bean and post and get data back, you will be able to use the tools out there to access an Axis4STruts Web Service from Perl, Java, C++, VB, C#, etc. Again that doesn't mean we are advocating the extreme use of Axis4Struts for anything but an occasional or trivial alternate access method via SOAP/Axis. If you do need more, then you can see what we did and extend it to meet your needs. Michael Oliver AppsAsPeers LLC 7391 S. Bullrider Ave. Tucson, AZ 85747 Phone:(520)574-1150 Fax:(520)844-1036 -----Original Message----- From: Mike Oliver [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2003 7:30 AM To: 'Struts Users Mailing List' Subject: RE: [AXIS4STRUTS]Generating XML from Struts JSP Craig, Excellent! That leads to the not so trivial, for Axis4Struts to work as envisioned, the Axis stubs and WSDL will be generated from a class with at least one method similar to: (other overloaded methods probable) Public String StrutsExecute(String strutsURL, NameValuePair[] strutsFormData, NameValuePair[] strutsServerHeaders){ //Construct HttpClient //get connection to struts server //create and populate a post from strutsURL, strutsFormData // and strutsServer headers //execute the post method //return responseXml } A trivial example of a struts-config.xml element to register an action to be called from Axis4Struts to get the current registration record from the struts example and reuse of a Struts action class without any modifications: <action path="/AxisEditRegistration" type="org.apache.struts.webapp.example.EditRegistrationAction" attribute="registrationForm" scope="request" validate="false"> <forward name="success" path="/AxisRegistration.jsp" /> </action> The AxisRegistration.jsp would be very similar to the original registration.jsp, something like the following without the html formatting tags: <%@ page contentType="text/xml" %> <%@ taglib prefix="bean" uri="http://jakarta.apache.org/struts/bean"; %> <%@ taglib prefix="logic" uri="http://jakarta.apache.org/struts/logic"; %> <registrationForm> <username> <bean:write name="registrationForm" property="username"/> </username> <password> <bean:write name="registrationForm" property="password"/> </password> <fullName> <bean:write name="registrationForm" property="fullName"/> </fullName> <fromAddress> <bean:write name="registrationForm" property="fromAddress"/> </fromAddress> <replyToAddress> <bean:write name="registrationForm" property="replyToAddress"/> </replyToAddress> </registrationForm> This should be easy enough to understand and use, but I would like to go one step further. The Axis4Struts.jsp would be a reusable jsp (and hopefully included in the distribution) that any action could be configured to use to output xml for Axis from any bean ala DynaBean reflection, you would simply pass in the bean name as an argument, then dynamically build the xml for all the bean's named values. The struts-config.xml action element would look something like: <action path="/AxisEditRegistration" type="org.apache.struts.webapp.example.EditRegistrationAction" attribute="registrationForm" scope="request" validate="false"> <forward name="success" path="/Axis4Struts.jsp?beanName=registrationForm" /> </action> Michael Oliver AppsAsPeers LLC 7391 S. Bullrider Ave. Tucson, AZ 85747 Phone:(520)574-1150 Fax:(520)844-1036 -----Original Message----- From: Craig R. McClanahan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, January 27, 2003 10:41 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: [AXIS4STRUTS]Generating XML from Struts JSP On Mon, 27 Jan 2003, Michael Oliver wrote: > Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 22:04:48 -0700 > From: Michael Oliver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: Struts Users Mailing List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [AXIS4STRUTS]Generating XML from Struts JSP > > Has anyone used JSP with Struts to generate XML? > http://java.sun.com/products/jsp/html/JSPXML.html > > Would anyone be interested in a struts-xml.tld and the associated custom > tag classes? > > If so what kinds of tags would you want? bean name and value? > > Can we just add a few XML oriented tags to the struts-html.tld and > html/custom tag classes? > > DynaBean Tags? > > Build an xml document from the contents of a DynaBean? > > Just some of the things we might want for Axis4Struts and others may > want too. > I use JSP to render XML with the standard Struts tag libraries and it works quite well. The <bean:write> tag already supports DynaBeans, <logic:iterate> works great for looping through data structures, and so on. A trivial example similar to the XML document listed in the page you referenced (assuming a collection of "books" that is either JavaBeans or DynaBeans): <%@ page contentType="text/xml" %> <%@ taglib prefix="bean" uri="http://jakarta.apache.org/struts/bean"; %> <%@ taglib prefix="logic" uri="http://jakarta.apache.org/struts/logic"; %> <books> <logic:iterate id="book" name="books"> <book isbn='<bean:write name="book" property="isbn"/>'> <title><bean:write name="book" property="title"/></title> <quantity><bean:write name="book" property="quantity"/></quantity> <price><bean:write name="book" property="price"/></price> </book> </logic:iterate> </books> Of course, you can do the same thing with JSTL tags if you've got standard JavaBeans as the backing data. > Ollie Craig -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
