Hi Ade, Exactly; the expectation for a strongly typed interface. I have worked heavily with IDL before and WSDL for web services and that leaves little freedom. I need to warp my brain.
I like the flexible interface, even though I will most like in my design introduce 'gates' at key points providing strongly typed interfaces to ensure consistency in the flow (and satisfy my need for control...). Thanks, Gert. Adrian Trenaman-2 wrote: > > Hi there Drone42, > > Good point! JBI does borrow some things from WSDL - like the message > exchange paradigms (MEPs), and the concept that a service is a > collection of endpoints. But that's about as far as it goes: when you > create services on the bus you identify them using a WSDL-like service > name, but you don't have to define any WSDL. All your service does is > receive a MessageExchange, which contain your message payload as XML, > and potentially a number of MIME attachments. So, you don't need to > define a WSDL "interface" for your service. > > This took a while for me to get used to - I'm used to strongly typed > services with well-defined interfaces. In ServiceMix, however, service > definition is loosely typed: a service on the NMR just listens to > MessageExchanges. > > That said, if you do want to write a strongly-typed service with WSDL, > then use the cxf-se component do deploy a JAX-WS service > implementation onto the NMR. This works for both WSDL-first and Code- > first approaches, and allows you to write pure Java code and not worry > about MessageExchanges. You can then hook up the cxf-bc component to > add a binding to connect that service to the outside world. > > Best, > Ade > > On 19 Nov 2008, at 22:57, Drone42 wrote: > >> >> Reading the JBI and the service mix documentation there is a lot of >> talk >> about MEPs and service definitions in WSDL. Maybe this has put me on >> a wrong >> track, because when I first wanted to create a SU, I expected to >> start with >> the WSDL definition of the service and messages to be exchanged. >> >> And since I have been confused in regards to where the format of the >> messages exchanged are defined. >> >> Looking at all the tutorials and example code, I have namely yet to >> run into >> a WSDL file. Where are they? (I feel a bit like X-files; I know they >> must be >> out there, but where...). >> -- >> View this message in context: >> http://www.nabble.com/Conceptual-problem--Where-is-all-the-WSDL--tp20591446p20591446.html >> Sent from the ServiceMix - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >> > > --- > Adrian Trenaman, Consultant Fellow, PS - Opensource Center of Competence > Progress Software Corp > Shelbourne Road, Dublin 4, Ireland > --- > +353-1-637-2659 (Office) > +353-1-637-2882 (Fax) > +353-86-6051026 (Mobile) > adrian.trenaman (Skype) > ---- > Blog: http://trenaman.blogspot.com > > > > > > > > > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Conceptual-problem--Where-is-all-the-WSDL--tp20591446p20596808.html Sent from the ServiceMix - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
