[xgws-user] Xsoap rmi

[Aleksander Slominski]

Dirk De Becker wrote:

>Hey all, 
>
>I am not quite sure if this is the correct mailing list for this
>question, so if it is not, please accept my apologies and tell my where
>to post this question :-)
>  
>
hi Dirk,

not worry it is related ;-)

>I would like to make a client-server application that should work
>through our university firewall, which only allows calls to ports 80 and
>443 to go through. The application will be programmed in java, and
>should be able to make RMI-like calls. Furthermore, I would like it to
>be able to do on-request registration and unregistration of objects for
>remote access. What I mean is, I would like to have a server program
>that allows a client to make a request to create and register an object
>of a certain type (on the server), after which the client can
>communicate directly to the created object on the server. At the end,
>the client should also be able to call a method on the server, which
>will result in the server unregistering the created object and
>destroying it.
>Thanks for any help, 
>  
>
one service we have that is similar to that is WS-MsgBox, see:
http://www.extreme.indiana.edu/xgws/msgbox/

the only difference is that it is more service oriented and we do it 
over port 80 not 443 as security is not that important (still we could 
do that as XSUL supports SSL ...)

let me know if you want to know more about it.

alek

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