Re: Any plans for...

Andrzej Jan Taramina wrote:

>Alek:
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>>key client side abstractions i have prorotyped are XService (that 
>>represents a local objects that provides access to a service described 
>>in a WSDL):
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>I'm thinking that there would be value in keeping the client and server side 
>stuff separate.  Or at least modular enough that you can pick/choose which 
>you want.
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it is completely separate (or as separate as you want - still you can 
expose service on local machine, the same JVM etc) with some extra work 
to host (local Java, BeanShell, whatnot) or bridge to existing services 
(like EJB).

>I expect more folks will want the WSIF-style client invocation API rather 
>than the server side service implementation stuff.  Primarily because there 
>are already a lot of toolkits that generate the latter.
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true but you need minimal server side to do true asynchronous invocation 
as in such situation you are doing peer-2-peer computing not 
client-server (every client is at least on logical level also a server - 
sai that you can use intermediaries such as WS-MsgBox service to allow 
client that can not have listening socket - ex. applet - to pull 
messages  ...)

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>>think about it as a *prototype* for next-gen WSIF - if there is 
>>something useful then it may be used (or improved) in the next WSIF
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>Ah!  Now I understand.  Excellent!
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;-)

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>>direction and everything else depends on users and where they want to 
>>take it ... it is that simple and WSIF definitely needs more active 
>>developers :)
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>+1 on that.  
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>No decisions yet, and given how close the Xmas season is, I might not make a 
>decision till after the holidays.  
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>But I am tempted by the thought of extending the inventory of WSIF providers 
>to include REST/HTTP (I believe Oracle has this already...sad that they 
>haven't donated it back to the WSIF project), ebXML Message Service and also 
>updates to be able to handle the impending WSDL 2.0 spec.
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cool!

alek

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