RE: COM Pluggable provider interest.

[James Snell <jm...@intesolv.com>]

Rick,

Just wanted to make sure this didn't get lost... yes, I think there is
interest in this and the work is appreciated.  Once you've got it hammered
down a bit more (and once some (haha) free time opens up for me) I'd like to
take a look.

- James

> 
> Rick Rineholt/Raleigh/IBM@IBMUS on 01/31/2001 07:34:43 AM
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> Please respond to soap-dev@xml.apache.org
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> To:   soap-dev@xml.apache.org
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> Subject:  COM Pluggable provider interest.
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> 
> I have been working on a Microsoft COM pluggable provider for 
> Apache SOAP.
> Currently, I have been able from an Apache SOAP client to invoke on an
> Apache SOAP server, services I have written in MS Visual 
> Basic.  The code
> as it is today only supports primitive parameters and return 
> types.  The
> approach taken is a pluggable provider that contains JNI code 
> that does the
> marshaling between Java parameters and return types to COM 
> Variants and
> creates the COM object and then invokes requested the method.  The COM
> object to create is specified as in an option to the 
> pluggable provider in
> the deployment descriptor by its progid or CLSID.  There is 
> no framework to
> support state and to be quite honest the support of COM is at 
> an elementary
> level.  The code is both Java and C++, which is compiled with 
> MS Visual C++
> compiler version 6.0.
> 
> What I like to get is a feel from the Apache developers' 
> community if this
> is ultimately something it would be interested in having 
> contributed to the
> Apache SOAP project.
> 
> Rick Rineholt
> "The truth is out there...  All you need is a better search engine!"
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