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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:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>]*On Behalf Of *S Pole >> *Sent:* Wednesday, March 15, 2006 2:43 PM >> *To:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> *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. >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Dev mailing list >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> http://lists.ofbiz.org/mailman/listinfo/dev > > _______________________________________________ > Dev mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.ofbiz.org/mailman/listinfo/dev >
