Calling Web Services from Flow

[Adam Ratcliffe <ad...@mrigitech.com>]

Hi,
 
I've put together an implementation of Luke Hubbard's RT on calling web
services from the flow layer.
The code is available from
http://wiki.apache.org/cocoon/FlowAndWebServices if you're interested in
taking
a look.
 
The impetus for getting this going came from an application I was
working on where I needed to direct the
flow of control based upon the response from a remote service, something
not easily done using the SOAP
logicsheet or WebServiceProxyGenerator.
 
The code probably needs a bit of a tidy up, I'm not hugely familiar with
the Avalon component lifecycle.  I also
lifted the CompilingClassLoader code directly from the FOM javascript
interpreter - I'm sure it could be better
optimized for this purpose.
 
Cheers
Adam
 
 

Re: Calling Web Services from Flow

[Reinhard Poetz <re...@apache.org>]

Adam Ratcliffe wrote:

>Hi,
> 
>I've put together an implementation of Luke Hubbard's RT on calling web
>services from the flow layer.
>The code is available from
>http://wiki.apache.org/cocoon/FlowAndWebServices if you're interested in
>taking
>a look.
> 
>The impetus for getting this going came from an application I was
>working on where I needed to direct the
>flow of control based upon the response from a remote service, something
>not easily done using the SOAP
>logicsheet or WebServiceProxyGenerator.
> 
>The code probably needs a bit of a tidy up, I'm not hugely familiar with
>the Avalon component lifecycle.  I also
>lifted the CompilingClassLoader code directly from the FOM javascript
>interpreter - I'm sure it could be better
>optimized for this purpose.
> 
>Cheers
>Adam
> 
>
>  
>


Adam,

Wow, this looks really promising! Pls, could you file a Bugzilla report 
and add the ZIP file there.

Many thanks!

Best,
Reinhard