Re: [OFBiz] Dev - SOAP Services

[BJ Freeman <bj...@free-man.net>]

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David E Jones sent the following on 3/17/2006 12:26 PM:
> Where have you looked for information on this? There has been a fair amount of discussion in the mailing lists, and probably some good information in the Wiki as well.
> 
> The Service Engine in OFBiz is _not_ web services based, but it does have stuff to automatically map Service Engine service definitions to WSDL (which is the WSDL you can get through the WebTools webapp in the service reference area), but these mappings are VERY simple. If you need more complex service interactions it is usually necessary to create web services in Java inside OFBiz using a tool like Axis (or whatever you like) and do the more complex data mapping manually and call OFBiz services inside your new web services code.
> 
> You can also certainly contribute to the effort of better default data mapping for SOAP services calling to/from the OFBiz Service Engine. What exists now is what people have needed in the past and been willing to contribute (as with _everything_ in OFBiz). Web services standards and APIs change over time, and the current code is a few generations from the original code for this and much better than it was before. So, I guess the old mantra applies: make it do or do without...
> 
> As you have probably already noticed this isn't a huge priority for OFBiz from a business level. We have basic enabling technology and some recommended best practices for it (as mentioned above), but it hasn't seen as much attention as other parts of OFBiz (not to diminish the hundreds of man-hours that have gone into this particular thing of course...).
> 
> -David
> 
> 
> S Pole wrote:
>> No takers?
>>  
>> I love OFBiz for the wealth of business knowledge it embodies, but it is 
>> a requirement that OFBiz services may be exposed in a standard way, WS-I 
>> at a minimum. I find many web services assertions on your web sites and 
>> presentations, but find no support in the code, given a week's code 
>> evaluation. Please point me to some guidelines for implementing 
>> SOAP-based services with OFBiz, even if it's only a roadmap.
>>
>>  
>> Thanks.
>>  
>>  
>> -----Original Message-----
>> *From:* users-bounces@lists.ofbiz.org 
>> <ma...@lists.ofbiz.org> 
>> [mailto:users-bounces@lists.ofbiz.org 
>> <ma...@lists.ofbiz.org>]*On Behalf Of *S Pole
>> *Sent:* Wednesday, March 15, 2006 2:43 PM
>> *To:* users@lists.ofbiz.org <ma...@lists.ofbiz.org>
>> *Subject:* [OFBiz] Users - SOAP Services
>>
>> Hi all,
>> I am new to OFBiz and am starting out to build a simple SOAP service. So 
>> far I have been successful in creating a simple 'HelloWorld' service and 
>> generating the wsdl file.
>>
>> My questions:
>>
>> -- The generated wsdl defaults to a document/literal style. Axis1 on the 
>> other hand defaults to rpc/encoded and is supporting rpc/literal in 
>> Axis2. How does OFBiz support rpc styles?
>> -- Is there any kind of a SOAPMOnitor utility in OFbiz?
>> -- I need to have the wsdl exposed automatically to a URL for non-Java 
>> clients. How do we make this possible with OFbiz?
>> -- Is there any way of porting wsdd files directly to OFbiz or do we 
>> need to work with the services def file?
>>
>> I cannot find a whole lot of documentation/discussions on this topic. 
>> Any pointers are appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks.
>> SBP.
>>
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