From: Devraj M. <lu...@et...> - 2005-05-16 23:27:00
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We are at the stage where we are unsure how we wish to provide an external gateway for our embedded application. Part of us says that we should have a SOAP gateway that allows easy access and support easy expansion of our product. Is there any move or attempt by anyone here to provide SOAP styled gateways of their Gumstix based embedded applications? If so how are you guys going about it? Thanks for your time. Kind regards, Devraj -- Eternity Technologies Pty. Ltd. ACN 107 600 975 P O Box 5949 Wagga Wagga NSW 2650 Australia Voice: +61-2-69255866 / Fax: +61-2-69251039 http://www.eternitytechnologies.com/ |
From: Devraj M. <su...@et...> - 2005-05-16 23:19:14
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We are at the stage where we are unsure how we wish to provide an external gateway for our embedded application. Part of us says that we should have a SOAP gateway that allows easy access and support easy expansion of our product. Is there any move or attempt by anyone here to provide SOAP styled gateways of their Gumstix based embedded applications? If so how are you guys going about it? Thanks for your time. Kind regards, Devraj -- Eternity Technologies Pty. Ltd. ACN 107 600 975 P O Box 5949 Wagga Wagga NSW 2650 Australia Voice: +61-2-69255866 / Fax: +61-2-69251039 http://www.eternitytechnologies.com/ |
From: Chris B. <gu...@sn...> - 2005-05-17 22:08:04
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What exactly is an "external SOAP gateway"? I assume you're wanting to send a SOAP query to the gumstix and have it return a SOAP result? SOAP isn't really any more than a standard of returning data from a program in an XML format. So, if you want to query your gumstix through a network using the SOAP protocols, you simply need to write a program on your gumstix that returns an appropriate set of XML data that complies with the SOAP formats. Getting your application to return SOAP XML is easy... you can either use a pre-developed SOAP lib to generate the appropriate XML data, or you can simply return the XML data yourself without libs. It doesn't have to be very complex. --csb Devraj Mukherjee wrote: > We are at the stage where we are unsure how we wish to provide an > external gateway for our embedded application. Part of us says that we > should have a SOAP gateway that allows easy access and support easy > expansion of our product. > > Is there any move or attempt by anyone here to provide SOAP styled > gateways of their Gumstix based embedded applications? > > If so how are you guys going about it? Thanks for your time. > > Kind regards, > Devraj > |
From: Craig H. <cr...@hu...> - 2005-05-18 16:54:15
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I'd actually venture to guess that for any application you're going to be running on a gumstix, you don't actually need or want a full- blown XML parser, but rather that it'd be easier to just parse using regexes or even just straight string matches. Composing results for SOAP queries as Chris says is probably just basically a printf() with your results inside some static XML structure. C On May 16, 2005, at 3:07 PM, Chris Bradford wrote: > What exactly is an "external SOAP gateway"? I assume you're > wanting to > send a SOAP query to the gumstix and have it return a SOAP result? > > SOAP isn't really any more than a standard of returning data from a > program in an XML format. So, if you want to query your gumstix > through > a network using the SOAP protocols, you simply need to write a program > on your gumstix that returns an appropriate set of XML data that > complies with the SOAP formats. > > Getting your application to return SOAP XML is easy... you can either > use a pre-developed SOAP lib to generate the appropriate XML data, or > you can simply return the XML data yourself without libs. It doesn't > have to be very complex. > > --csb > > > Devraj Mukherjee wrote: > > >> We are at the stage where we are unsure how we wish to provide an >> external gateway for our embedded application. Part of us says >> that we >> should have a SOAP gateway that allows easy access and support easy >> expansion of our product. >> >> Is there any move or attempt by anyone here to provide SOAP styled >> gateways of their Gumstix based embedded applications? >> >> If so how are you guys going about it? Thanks for your time. >> >> Kind regards, >> Devraj |
From: Dan T. <log...@gm...> - 2005-05-18 23:47:58
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I beg to differ - a little bit at least - I'd go for the XML parser because you know that after your app is working you can very easily extend it. Parsing XML with standard string routines is all well and good, but I've always found it hard to make alterations to that sort of code - or deal with even small changes in the data format.=20 Remember that the X stands for eXtensible - using it now could save you a lot of time in the future. I've also found (albeit in non-embedded applications) that when dealing with even modestly complex data structures using an XML parser rather than string routines can sometimes lower your resource usage - just as using printf can save you bloating your code with calls to atoi and putc. In the end its a trade off between resources on the Gumstix and resources in your development team. Anyway, that's *just my opinion*. I, for one, would love to see someone get an XML parser and SOAP application working on the Gumstix. Cheers, Dan On 5/18/05, Craig Hughes <cr...@hu...> wrote: > I'd actually venture to guess that for any application you're going > to be running on a gumstix, you don't actually need or want a full- > blown XML parser, but rather that it'd be easier to just parse using > regexes or even just straight string matches. Composing results for > SOAP queries as Chris says is probably just basically a printf() with > your results inside some static XML structure. >=20 > C >=20 > On May 16, 2005, at 3:07 PM, Chris Bradford wrote: >=20 > > What exactly is an "external SOAP gateway"? I assume you're > > wanting to > > send a SOAP query to the gumstix and have it return a SOAP result? > > > > SOAP isn't really any more than a standard of returning data from a > > program in an XML format. So, if you want to query your gumstix > > through > > a network using the SOAP protocols, you simply need to write a program > > on your gumstix that returns an appropriate set of XML data that > > complies with the SOAP formats. > > > > Getting your application to return SOAP XML is easy... you can either > > use a pre-developed SOAP lib to generate the appropriate XML data, or > > you can simply return the XML data yourself without libs. It doesn't > > have to be very complex. > > > > --csb > > > > > > Devraj Mukherjee wrote: > > > > > >> We are at the stage where we are unsure how we wish to provide an > >> external gateway for our embedded application. Part of us says > >> that we > >> should have a SOAP gateway that allows easy access and support easy > >> expansion of our product. > >> > >> Is there any move or attempt by anyone here to provide SOAP styled > >> gateways of their Gumstix based embedded applications? > >> > >> If so how are you guys going about it? Thanks for your time. > >> > >> Kind regards, > >> Devraj >=20 >=20 >=20 > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by Oracle Space Sweepstakes > Want to be the first software developer in space? > Enter now for the Oracle Space Sweepstakes! > http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=3D7412&alloc_id=3D16344&op=3Dclick > _______________________________________________ > gumstix-users mailing list > gum...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gumstix-users >=20 --=20 Dan Taylor Software Development Engineer, JTL Systems Ltd PhD Student, Reading University, UK http://www.logicalgenetics.com |
From: David I S M. <da...@th...> - 2005-05-19 00:39:32
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I already have an xml parser working, you can too: checkout ezxml at http://ezxml.sourceforge.net/ It's a lightweight parser and works really nicely. As to soap, that IMHO is a waste of space but some like it. I prefer to pull in the source code files into my project but you can use lib's if you want to. Cheers, David On Thu, 2005-05-19 at 00:47 +0100, Dan Taylor wrote: > I beg to differ - a little bit at least - I'd go for the XML parser > because you know that after your app is working you can very easily > extend it. Parsing XML with standard string routines is all well and > good, but I've always found it hard to make alterations to that sort > of code - or deal with even small changes in the data format. > Remember that the X stands for eXtensible - using it now could save > you a lot of time in the future. > > I've also found (albeit in non-embedded applications) that when > dealing with even modestly complex data structures using an XML parser > rather than string routines can sometimes lower your resource usage - > just as using printf can save you bloating your code with calls to > atoi and putc. > > In the end its a trade off between resources on the Gumstix and > resources in your development team. > > Anyway, that's *just my opinion*. I, for one, would love to see > someone get an XML parser and SOAP application working on the Gumstix. > > Cheers, > > Dan > > On 5/18/05, Craig Hughes <cr...@hu...> wrote: > > I'd actually venture to guess that for any application you're going > > to be running on a gumstix, you don't actually need or want a full- > > blown XML parser, but rather that it'd be easier to just parse using > > regexes or even just straight string matches. Composing results for > > SOAP queries as Chris says is probably just basically a printf() with > > your results inside some static XML structure. > > > > C > > > > On May 16, 2005, at 3:07 PM, Chris Bradford wrote: > > > > > What exactly is an "external SOAP gateway"? I assume you're > > > wanting to > > > send a SOAP query to the gumstix and have it return a SOAP result? > > > > > > SOAP isn't really any more than a standard of returning data from a > > > program in an XML format. So, if you want to query your gumstix > > > through > > > a network using the SOAP protocols, you simply need to write a program > > > on your gumstix that returns an appropriate set of XML data that > > > complies with the SOAP formats. > > > > > > Getting your application to return SOAP XML is easy... you can either > > > use a pre-developed SOAP lib to generate the appropriate XML data, or > > > you can simply return the XML data yourself without libs. It doesn't > > > have to be very complex. > > > > > > --csb > > > > > > > > > Devraj Mukherjee wrote: > > > > > > > > >> We are at the stage where we are unsure how we wish to provide an > > >> external gateway for our embedded application. Part of us says > > >> that we > > >> should have a SOAP gateway that allows easy access and support easy > > >> expansion of our product. > > >> > > >> Is there any move or attempt by anyone here to provide SOAP styled > > >> gateways of their Gumstix based embedded applications? > > >> > > >> If so how are you guys going about it? Thanks for your time. > > >> > > >> Kind regards, > > >> Devraj > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > This SF.Net email is sponsored by Oracle Space Sweepstakes > > Want to be the first software developer in space? > > Enter now for the Oracle Space Sweepstakes! > > http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7412&alloc_id=16344&op=click > > _______________________________________________ > > gumstix-users mailing list > > gum...@li... > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gumstix-users > > > > -- David Mandala <davidm at them dot com> www.them.com/~davidm Public Key id: 45B2D952 Murphy TX, 75094 214.774.2569 HO 972.693.4007 C |
From: Craig H. <cr...@gu...> - 2005-05-19 16:34:46
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If anyone gets ambitious and makes an ezxml.mk let me know and I'll add it to the buildroot. C On May 18, 2005, at 5:28 PM, David I S Mandala wrote: > I already have an xml parser working, you can too: checkout ezxml at > http://ezxml.sourceforge.net/ It's a lightweight parser and works > really > nicely. As to soap, that IMHO is a waste of space but some like it. > > I prefer to pull in the source code files into my project but you can > use lib's if you want to. |
From: David I S M. <da...@th...> - 2005-05-19 17:10:08
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The ezxlm stuff by nature builds as a static lib not shared. I've never bothered to fix that but it might be worth fixing. On Thu, 2005-05-19 at 09:34 -0700, Craig Hughes wrote: > If anyone gets ambitious and makes an ezxml.mk let me know and I'll > add it to the buildroot. > > C > > On May 18, 2005, at 5:28 PM, David I S Mandala wrote: > > > I already have an xml parser working, you can too: checkout ezxml at > > http://ezxml.sourceforge.net/ It's a lightweight parser and works > > really > > nicely. As to soap, that IMHO is a waste of space but some like it. > > > > I prefer to pull in the source code files into my project but you can > > use lib's if you want to. > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by Oracle Space Sweepstakes > Want to be the first software developer in space? > Enter now for the Oracle Space Sweepstakes! > http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7412&alloc_id=16344&op=click > _______________________________________________ > gumstix-users mailing list > gum...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gumstix-users > -- David Mandala <davidm at them dot com> www.them.com/~davidm Public Key id: 45B2D952 Murphy TX, 75094 214.774.2569 HO 972.693.4007 C |
From: Craig H. <cr...@gu...> - 2005-05-20 03:06:19
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even as a .h/.a combo though it could go in the buildroot. There's a couple other static libs in there already. C On May 19, 2005, at 9:59 AM, David I S Mandala wrote: > The ezxlm stuff by nature builds as a static lib not shared. I've > never > bothered to fix that but it might be worth fixing. > > On Thu, 2005-05-19 at 09:34 -0700, Craig Hughes wrote: > >> If anyone gets ambitious and makes an ezxml.mk let me know and I'll >> add it to the buildroot. |