Grouper Developers Forum

["Stephen M. Barrett" <>]

Chris Hyzer wrote:
> This is another example of someone using "Rest-like" to describe a HTTP-GET 
> based RPC service.
> In fact, the way they have the full featured one built with objects, and lite 
> methods built with scalars is exactly what I have been doing (e.g. findGroups 
> and findGroupsSimple).  Two differences that I see:
>
> 1. Their response can be XML or XHTML.  I didn't look too carefully, but it 
> doesn't look like their XML in the response is in an xml schema, it is just 
> returned as a string.  2. Perhaps this helps them have XML is slightly 
> simpler than the Axis generated one.
>
> I wonder if they are using Axis, it seems similar, though maybe they are 
> customizing the WSDL to return with XML or XHTML... (Grouper's us currently 
> 100% generated)
>
> Chris
>   

Fedora is using Axis; version 1.3.x.  It employs a rather complicated 
server-config.wsdd whose content I am unfamiliar with.  I've done work 
with the client side .wsdd but not the server side.

The server .wsdd contains definitions which point to classes in a Fedora 
package but that does not mean that the code contained therein is not 
generated.  I'm not sure that pursuing its make-up further is warranted 
because it is derived from Axis 1.3 but if you would like I will delve 
into the code and do some more analysis.




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