You could use Spring's HttpInvoker Strategy (Java Serialization over HTTP) to expose your Services via HTTP. Then you clients could talk to them by pointing at the appropriate URL to load them up.
http://static.springframework.org/spring/docs/2.0.x/reference/remoting.html#remoting-httpinvoker HTH, Matt On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 1:45 PM, Philip Barlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All, > > I am looking for peoples opinions on 2 subjects, I think they are relevant > enough to Appfuse and hopefully you agree. A design decision has recently > arisen at work that i'm hoping people on this list could help advise me on. > > Basically i want to use the Appfuse service and data access layers as part > of an application, sitting in front of this, instead of having a web front > end, the application would have a socket server interface, in other words, > the application would receive messages on this socket, deserialise the > information and pass the objects to the service layer for processing. > > It is essentially a socket server i suppose. What i am wondering is, has > anyone done anything similar? Can you recommend a way to launch this app > with Spring, i.e. load the context at start up without having to have an > application server such as tomcat/jetty? Probably an executable jar? > > Also, it has been argued that the database should expose stored procedures > rather than using Hibernate in the way appfuse currently does, i disagreed > as i find the way appfuse operates, more maintainable and portable between > different databases, but again i would like peoples opinions on Hibernate v > Stored Procedures... > > If you are still reading, thanks for taking the time, much appreciated. > > Thanks > > Philip > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
