Masters project

[Glyn Normington <gl...@uk.ibm.com>]

I am in contact with a student who is looking for a Masters (MSc) project
in the area of Java, web services, and SOAP. The project will last for 3
months.

One interesting possibility I have already suggested would be to look at
how best to encapsulate the SOAP-specific pieces of Axis so that other XML
protocols could be plugged into Axis. An interesting possibility would be
to use Aspect Oriented Programming if SOAP turns out to be a
"cross-cutting" concern rather than a relatively separable subsystem.

Are there any other potentially suitable projects? He is very keen and Axis
could benefit from this kind of effort. Just writing some code would not be
suitable, I'm afraid.

Glyn

Re: Masters project

[Mark Volkmann <vo...@charter.net>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Glyn Normington" <gl...@uk.ibm.com>
To: <ax...@xml.apache.org>
Sent: Monday, March 25, 2002 4:05 AM
Subject: Masters project


> I am in contact with a student who is looking for a Masters (MSc) project
> in the area of Java, web services, and SOAP. The project will last for 3
> months.
>
> One interesting possibility I have already suggested would be to look at
> how best to encapsulate the SOAP-specific pieces of Axis so that other XML
> protocols could be plugged into Axis. An interesting possibility would be
> to use Aspect Oriented Programming if SOAP turns out to be a
> "cross-cutting" concern rather than a relatively separable subsystem.
>
> Are there any other potentially suitable projects? He is very keen and
Axis
> could benefit from this kind of effort. Just writing some code would not
be
> suitable, I'm afraid.

I've written some XML compression software called BOX that is available at
http://box.sourceforge.net. My original goal was to write Axis handlers that
would compress and decompress SOAP messages using it. This may make using
SOAP for large payloads practical. It would be nice if other compression
techniques could easily be plugged into these handlers in case BOX is not
the best choice. I haven't found time to work on that yet and would be glad
to hand this over.