[ebxmlms-general] Servlet client for Hermes

[Julien <ju...@ni...>]

hi all,

 i'm interested in integrating Hermes features in a web application which was used to send simple SOAP messages with servlets controlled by a workflow engine. My questions are:

 - is it possible to build a servlet client for Hermes keeping all the features that are managed by a regular java application? In other words is there something a Hermes client like "Monitor" can't do with servlets? (authentication using the existing authentication file system, etc...)
 - is it possible to use just part of it, for example to build the ebxml soap message?
 - It is said in the documentation of Hermes that the architecture chosen (a stub between the client and the server) is used to resolve firewall issue. What kind of firewall protection does it go through? In the case of servlets on the client side sending information to the server side, is there any firewall security aspect to consider? should this design be kept?

 thanks for the info,
 julien