building SOAP answers

[Omar Benjelloun <om...@inria.fr>]

Hi,

This is probably a very stupid question... but I didn't figure out a
(simple) answer yet.
Suppose I build a service, and I already know how to compute the answer for
an operation. I want to generate, in the simplest possible way, the correct
SOAP answers.
But since the mechanism that computes the answers is generic for several
operations (a.k.a it is not 1 class per operation), I cannot just
"magically" turn a class into a web service.

I started looking at creating a SOAP envelope and adding a bdoy element by
specifying a namespace, etc.... Is this the simplest way to go ?

Thanks,

Omar

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Omar Benjelloun
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mailto:omar.benjelloun@inria.fr
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Re: building SOAP answers

[Omar Benjelloun <om...@inria.fr>]

Oops,

Now that I read it again, I can see that my description was not really
clear...

What I'm trying to do: knowing the answer to a SOAP request, I want to build
a SOAP message "manually" whithout going as low as generating a DOM tree or
writing the full string.

Why : All my services use the same "engine". Each service provides (and is
defined by) a specific, statically defined parametrization for it.
Therefore, when evaluating a service call, I call my engine "manually",
along with the call parameters, and I also have to build the answer
"manually".

I couldn't think of a design pattern that would capture this behaviour in a
more elegant fashion, so that's the way I'm doing it...

Hope this is clearer,

Omar



----- Original Message -----
From: "Andy Longshaw" <an...@blueskyline.com>
To: <ax...@xml.apache.org>
Sent: Monday, November 19, 2001 2:52 PM
Subject: Re: building SOAP answers


> Hi Omar,
>
> If it is a stupid question then I must be doubly stupid
> since I can't even understand the question :-)
>
> Can you clarify what you are trying to do? Are you looking
> to share some functionality between multiple SOAP methods
> or is it some variation on the Command pattern with the
> parameter(s) carrying part of the operation?
>
> Cheers
>
> Andy
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Omar Benjelloun" <om...@inria.fr>
> To: <ax...@xml.apache.org>
> Sent: Monday, November 19, 2001 11:25 AM
> Subject: building SOAP answers
>
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > This is probably a very stupid question... but I didn't figure out a
> > (simple) answer yet.
> > Suppose I build a service, and I already know how to compute the answer
for
> > an operation. I want to generate, in the simplest possible way, the
correct
> > SOAP answers.
> > But since the mechanism that computes the answers is generic for several
> > operations (a.k.a it is not 1 class per operation), I cannot just
> > "magically" turn a class into a web service.
> >
> > I started looking at creating a SOAP envelope and adding a bdoy element
by
> > specifying a namespace, etc.... Is this the simplest way to go ?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Omar
> >
> > _____________________________
> >
> > Omar Benjelloun
> > tel: +33 (0)1 39 63 52 83
> > mailto:omar.benjelloun@inria.fr
> > http://www-rocq.inria.fr/~benjello
> > _____________________________
> >
> >
>
>

Re: building SOAP answers

[Andy Longshaw <an...@blueskyline.com>]

Hi Omar,

If it is a stupid question then I must be doubly stupid
since I can't even understand the question :-)

Can you clarify what you are trying to do? Are you looking
to share some functionality between multiple SOAP methods
or is it some variation on the Command pattern with the
parameter(s) carrying part of the operation?

Cheers

Andy

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Omar Benjelloun" <om...@inria.fr>
To: <ax...@xml.apache.org>
Sent: Monday, November 19, 2001 11:25 AM
Subject: building SOAP answers


> Hi,
> 
> This is probably a very stupid question... but I didn't figure out a
> (simple) answer yet.
> Suppose I build a service, and I already know how to compute the answer for
> an operation. I want to generate, in the simplest possible way, the correct
> SOAP answers.
> But since the mechanism that computes the answers is generic for several
> operations (a.k.a it is not 1 class per operation), I cannot just
> "magically" turn a class into a web service.
> 
> I started looking at creating a SOAP envelope and adding a bdoy element by
> specifying a namespace, etc.... Is this the simplest way to go ?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Omar
> 
> _____________________________
> 
> Omar Benjelloun
> tel: +33 (0)1 39 63 52 83
> mailto:omar.benjelloun@inria.fr
> http://www-rocq.inria.fr/~benjello
> _____________________________
> 
>