From owner-freebsd-java Mon Jun 24 5:16:47 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Received: from probity.mcc.ac.uk (probity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.94]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27FE037B403 for ; Mon, 24 Jun 2002 05:16:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97]) by probity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 2.05 #7) id 17MSlm-0004v6-00; Mon, 24 Jun 2002 13:16:34 +0100 Received: (from jcm@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.11.6/8.11.1) id g5OCGXn32683; Mon, 24 Jun 2002 13:16:33 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from jcm) Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 13:16:33 +0100 From: j mckitrick To: Christopher Elkins Cc: freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Web services, Java, and FreeBSD questions Message-ID: <20020624131633.A32500@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> References: <20020623134209.A23899@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: ; from chrise@scardini.com on Sun, Jun 23, 2002 at 10:28:49AM -0700 X-Scanner: exiscan *17MSlm-0004v6-00*WDX0HLVUWHg* (Manchester Computing, University of Manchester) Sender: owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org | Unless you have a specific desire to learn SOAP (the protocol, not the | Apache project of the same name), you might consider looking at XML-RPC I took a look at XML-RPC, and you are right, that seems to be just what I am looking for. I wanted the simplest way to build a web service, and it looks like that's what I need to do it. I also wanted to avoid running a full-blown Apache server just to make a few RPC calls. | My recommendation: get your feet wet with either Apache XML-RPC or | Apache | SOAP. Then, if you're still interested start learning JAXRPC. After looking at the comparison, I can see there is a rather steep learning curve to parts of SOAP, and also a lot more than I need for what I want to do. Can XML-RPC be made to work via http? For example, my university web account has a firewall that keeps my applets from contacting the servlets I've written. I'd like to be able to attach a web service (a very simple arithmetic calculator) to the URL for my web page. So, if my web page is www.foo.edu/~jcm, I'd like to be able to set up an XML-RPC web service on www.foo.edu/~jcm/calculator, without needing to run another full-blown webserver, which I don't think I'm allowed to do anyway. Is this feasible? jm -- My other computer is your windows box. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message