RE: Eclipse & Axis

>From the sounds of it Rajesh is actually the one calling the end point in
which case it makes sense to not have it in a Servlet container.

When I said "need" in that sentence I was making assumptions that he would
not go the route of writing his own socket apps (even though it is an option
for him).  Yes, you could definitely write your own socket application
(client and server), but the only reason I would ever do that is because of
speed issues.  The company I used to work for needed the ability to have
lighting fast calls to the iSeries to get the next available number for a
production hardware piece and raw socket calls got the job done fast where
as doing a web service call would have most definitely slowed it down.

A few years ago, before Scott Klements HTTPAPI was out, I had to write my
own socket client to send XML to another iSeries that had a Java Servlet
waiting. All I can say is yuck :-)  I am very glad when I can make use of
good existing technologies before going to developing raw utilities from
scratch.

Aaron Bartell


-----Original Message-----
From: java400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:java400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Joe Pluta
Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2005 7:06 AM
To: 'Java Programming on and around the iSeries / AS400'
Subject: RE: Eclipse & Axis

> From: albartell
> 
> I am assuming that you are running it in a Servlet container (at least
> that
> is where it will need to be in the end to be a web service). In that
case
> just make sure you are deploying your WAR file the same as any other
> machine.

Aaron, is this necessarily true?  Can't you just write a standalone
program (in any language) that would simply listen on a TCP/IP port for
a request and then respond with the appropriate information?  It
wouldn't be particularly pretty, especially in RPG, but it's possible.

Joe