Color me crazy, but I'm working on a WSDL project now and ... well ... yuck. Sorry .. just had to get that out of my system. :-)
The services offered by manager should work for what you want. The link below is for tomcat 6, but there are equivalents for whatever version you are working with: http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/manager-howto.html#Supported%20Manager%20Commands --David Mike Oliver wrote: > Hmmm, > > I am not looking for the contents of /manager either in HTML or XML. > > The "manager" application you access at /manager/html can perform > "operations" like start, stop, deploy, undeploy, check status, etc. > > out of the box I can setup a manager role and grant that to a user, login as > that user and access the /manager/html user interface to do these > operations. In that I can upload a new war file, stop or start or undeploy > existing applications and check status. > > With a Web Service Definition Language file that points to a SOAP Web > Service Implementation those same operations could be executed by posting a > SOAP message to the operations defined and pointed to by the WSDL file. > > With the Web Services interface my central application can do all of the > operations, securely, and as part of a workflow, not requiring me to > navigate my browser to each instance of Tomcat and repeat an operation like > deploying a new war file to update all the instances that need it. > > > > Peter Lin wrote: > >> I think he wants it in XML format, and be able to bind it to an object >> model >> >> >> >> On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 1:29 PM, Mark Thomas <ma...@apache.org> wrote: >> >>> Mike Oliver wrote: >>> >>>> Ok perhaps I was unclear. >>>> >>>> I have multiple instances of Tomcat installed and need to manage the >>>> applications deployed on those instances. >>>> >>>> Currently I must login with a username and password to each instance >>>> /manager application through the normal user interface. >>>> >>>> What I want to do is automate that so I can access that same instance >>>> with >>>> that same username and password but via Web Services from a central >>>> location >>>> using WSDL or REST. >>>> >>> Understood. So what do you need that http://host:port/manager (rather >>> than http://host:port/manager/html) does not support? >>> >>> Mark >>> >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
