Duzenbury, Rich wrote: >>> Excuse me, but it seems that you are suggesting that I write the >>> extensions in Java. As I mentioned, I am not a java person. I have > no >>> alternatives than to use Java? >>> >> Well, you are asking for a very sophisticated functionality and >> I doubt that there are systems that connect to your custom database >> layout and retrieve the values you want to fill them into comboboxes >> from out of the box. However SWAMP gives you the opportunity to >> achieve that very easily, by using the custom actions, which are >> real elegant to use. But, yes, you have to use Java up to now. >> >> But I am sure Tom can give you a code example of how to write that >> custom code and I am sure that gives you an idea of how to do >> that - even in Java ;-) >> >> Klaas >> > > Thanks for the reply Klass. It would be much better for me if I could > extend swamp with a scripting language like perl, ruby, python, or even > php. maybe a cgi type interface? I think it would make the product more > accessible to mere mortals like myself.
The problem is that this is an extension to the workflow engine itself, and not just a client that communicates with SWAMP which would be possible in any language with the SOAP interface. > I thought perhaps the perl SOAP interface would do what I want, but I > guess it doesn't get called during, say, the workflow creation. The perl SOAP script is just a client like the webapp and does not get called from SWAMP. > Now I have to decide if it's finally time to tackle java. I've been > avoiding it for *years*. You could also write a class that just calls your external script and evaluates its result, but this sounds ugly ;-) -- Thomas Schmidt (tschmidt [at] suse.de) SUSE Linux Products GmbH :: Research & Development :: Internal Tools "Wer die Vergangenheit kontrolliert, kontrolliert die Zukunft. Wer die Gegenwart kontrolliert, kontrolliert die Vergangenheit.", 1984 _______________________________________________ swamp-devel mailing list swamp-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/swamp-devel http://swamp.sf.net
