Hi,
I'm very very new to ServiceMix and I need your help to figure out if
what I'm trying to achieve is possible at all.
On out project we are using Intalio|BPMS (effectively Apache ODE but
bundled with an Eclipse based Intalio Designer and a couple of other
goodies).
One of the systems that we will have to "orchestrate" provides SOAP/
HTTP APIs, however these APIs use a non-standard authentication scheme
that renders them unusable directly from within Intalio|BPMS, that is
before you can call any "business" service you first have to invoke a
Login service which provides you with the session token and later you
have to use this token to authenticate in any subsequent calls...
well, that would not necessarily be so bad, if that was described in
the WSDL, however this API expects this token to be passed through...
hmm... HTTP header.
There are a number of reasons why we cannot modify this behavior and
we need to stick to what we have, but at the same time we need to find
a way of working around this "feature".
Now, we have few to options here:
- either we build a properly annotated POJOs which would proxy this
behavior so that instead of the HTTP header BPEL engine would be
exchanging this token as part of the SOAP paylod,
- or - prefered one - I hope we could deploy some sort of the magic on
ServiceMix that would allow us to expose a proxy service that would in
turn convert from SOAP paylod into HTTP header and invoke this ugly API.
I've been RTFM-ing for a while (http://servicemix.apache.org/servicemix-http-new-endpoints.html
) but I'm too much a newbie to the ServiceMix to make any sense out of
it and thus validate my idea. My gut feeling is that we would have to
engage a custom HTTP marshaler for a consumer of this ugly API to do
the job of reading and writing HTTP headers and possibly some sort of
EIP to create a flow between a proxy and a consumer.
If this is possible at all, I would highly appreciate some concrete
examples.
And BTW, I'm more of the analyst than a developer - it was a very long
time ago when I have written my last working line of code ;) - so
please be understanding if I confused things here.
No need to say that as with all the projects around the Globe (and
possibly beyond) this is very urgent :)
Anyway, looking forward to responses from you guys.
/Mario
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Mariusz Brylant, PMP
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