> On Mon, 2 Jul 2001 11:40, you wrote:
> > I'm glad you think so. I can use all the help I can get. :)
> I think I'd be leading you astray if I left you thinking that there's much
> chance I'd find time to actually do anything )o: much as I'd love to get my
> feet wet, there's barely enough time in the day to sleep as it is )o:
No problem. I'm an insomniac, so sleep is just something I wish for...
> > Well, I'm just looking at sending XML messages back and forth. This could
> > easily be encapsulated into the HTTP protocol, but I don't see any reason
> > to make things more difficult than that are already.
> more difficult for your client you mean? At the server I would see it being
> simpler implementing it as a servlet. If java.net.HttpURLConnection worked
> it'd be easy from the client too (o: I'd have thought that it'd be simpler
> to do it as XML/HTTP and then implement something on the client (which you'd
> have to do to some degree anyway). I'm also pretty sure you can find some
> nice client side http connection libs out there.
Well, the client would probably just open a connection, but using a servlet
gives you a bunch of things from Tomcat and has the advantage of building on
a standard and making it more complete.
I have just gotten though enough of the Servlet 2.3 specs, and while a
servlet *must* implement the HTTP protocol, it can also implement other
protocols. So I would think that I'd just be helping to make Tomcat more
in sync with the standard.
> > I've looked at the code of the connectors and such in Tomcat 4.0b5 and
> > found that they are very tightly tied to HTTP.
> I think I now see what you're saying about implementing it now.
>
> Different approach though... Why not SOAP? I'm assuming there's a good
> reason why this isn't appropriate.
Actually it's because I don't know anything about SOAP. I'll have to look
at that... Though I'm basically using XML to build a protocol for a directory
service (GUS -- the Group-User-Service server; GUS is designed mainly to
work between servers rather than directly for a person).
In my almost 30 years of computing things have changed from where I could
know pretty much everything in the field to where things change so fast
that I can feel my knowledge becoming obsolute while I'm taking the time
to write this email... :(
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