[SoapRMI] Re: [xgws-dev] (no subject)

[Aleksander Slominski]

Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder wrote:

> [oops, wrong account first time. moderator: plz discard the other msg]

ok

> While searching for a simpler-to-set-up alternative to axis/apache
> libsoap, I found xsoap, which apparently does quite exactly what we
> want. A few question have, however, remained:
>
>  - the mailing lists seem to have pretty much died down. What is the
> status of xsoap?

but we are looking to have some major re-design to
make it more messaging oriented, multi-protocol (at minimum XML-SOAP
and some binary), ... (open for ideas) but still be easy to use with RMI interface.

> Will it be maintained in the future?

definitely - at least for few year :-)

> Is anybody
> actually using it on production systems?

it is used in xcat our component framework and applications
that are built on top of xcat such as active notebook (now called
XCAT Science Portal)

>  - status of wsdl support? I'd like to be able to publish my services
> via a wsdl file - and I'd rather not write the wsdl by hand...

it is now working but e are not happy with it.

in future we want xsoap to be more WSDL-centric and
use WSDL extensibility to describe multiple protocols
but for the user to make it easy to use portTypes
(like in WSIF)

>  - http://www.extreme.indiana.edu/xgws/papers/soaprmi_design/index.html
> seems to be one of the best pieces of documentation. How current is
> this? (Of course, there's the API doc, too. But this is very terse in
> many places...)

unfortunately it is the best high-level overview please take
also look on samples (and of course source code is available
as definitive point of reference - either as distribution which is
well tested snapshot or bleeding edge from CVS)

>  - JAX-RPC: how does XSOAP relate to JAX-RPC?

when JAX-RPC is finished we will probably implement
those interfaces but we are interested in multi-protocol
systems not just XML and we want it to be prog-language
independent (at minimum Java and C++) so we look more
on WSDL/SOAP as a common abstraction.

> Thank you for any replies

hope it helps and please do not hesitate to ask
more questions :-)

thanks,

alek