RE: Newbie merlin/http question

Hi idris
I am , like you, trying to get my hands on the Merlin framework (actually 
runtime environment), and Merlin doesn't mention any particular restriction 
about which Java technology you use, you just "talk about it" when you 
register your component.

Before you go ahead, find out if the SMS server vendor is using SOAP 
envelops to wrap the message ... I have a 99% certainty that they are doing 
that.

Then go to http://xml.apache.org and there you will find APIs that manage 
your xml messages (SOAP or not).

Saludos
Maquina


>From: Idris B Saliu <[email protected]>
>Reply-To: "Avalon framework users" <[email protected]>
>To: [email protected]
>Subject: Newbie merlin/http question
>Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2004 01:51:26 +0100
>
>Hi All,
>   I have a couple of question regarding merlin I hope some people here 
>will be able to help me with. I working on project involving 2 way text 
>messaging. It goes like this, a user sends a text message to a particular 
>number and the mobile phone company routes the message to our SMS 
>Server/Gateway. The SMS server can then pass on the message to web server 
>in the form of an HTTP POST request. The POST request is sent as xml 
>encoded as form data contained in the "xml" parameter. It's left to me to 
>parse the XML data using an SDK provided by the SMS gatewat vendor. My 
>question is this, does merlin have any type of built-in servlet engine that 
>can handle the HTTP POST request made by the SMS server. Although I'm not a 
>web application guru, I was able to accomplish this with tomcat and also 
>Apache/perl CGI scripts. After explaining the project to a friend he 
>suggested I take a look at merlin because of the applications we are trying 
>to build around the text messaging platform. I don't know what merlin's 
>learning curve is like, I've done most of my development work in J2SE with 
>very little exposure to Enterprise java development, I don't know if J2EE 
>is a prerequisite for learning merlin. Any information would be greatly 
>appreciated. Thanks in advance.
>
>--idris
>
>
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