First Topic for discussion on Axis4Struts

[Mike Oliver <ol...@appsaspeers.com>]

And if you (or any of the Tucson JUG) want to contribute just let me
know and I will add you in.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/axis4struts/

And Warner if you want to contribute you can take the task of creating a
snazzy Home page for:

http://axis4struts.sourceforge.net

You will get a lot of exposure with that.

One of the first topics of discussion is where the Axis4Struts entry
point should be?

I can see several possibilities:

One would be to clone/extend the ActionServlet as it is the component in
standard struts that calls the Module's RequestHandlers.   The advantage
here would be the same RequestHandler objects for Struts modules would
be called getting reuse at that level.  The problem there is that there
is heavy dependency on the content and context of the HTTPRequest and
HTTPResponse in the ActionServlet which means heavy lifting to translate
the SOAPRequest and SOAPResponse payloads.

Another would be to create a more common Java Object class that did much
of the work of the ActionServlet and was the interface entry point for
the Axis WSDL file and generated servlets entry point, and the source
for the Axis Engine generation and that class would call a SOAP/Axis
RequestHandler which would be a clone/extension of the standard Struts
RequestHandler.   This would make the Actions the common layer not the
ActionServlet.   The problem here is that with Struts 1.1 there are
modules and if the standard Struts application has different
RequestHandlers for different Modules, then you would probably need to
clone each one of those into a ModuleSOAPRequestHandler, which
complicates reuse.

There are other possibilities such as AspectJ and even the use of
Servlet Include and Forward of the SOAPRequest and SOAPResponse through
a dispatcher where the SOAP/Axis Servlet just acted to interpret and
translate the payload into a normal urlencoded or multipart form-data
post to the Struts Interface.

Michael Oliver
AppsAsPeers LLC
7391 S. Bullrider Ave.
Tucson, AZ 85747
Phone:(520)574-1150
Fax:(520)844-1036





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