Re: [Mantisbt-soap-dev] using Mantis SOAP from Java without Axis1

[Robert M. <rob...@gm...>]

On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 9:40 PM, Alexey Skor <al...@gm...> wrote:
> I have seen those connectors, but they didn't do what we needed at that
> time, plus some of them required installing additional plugins inside bug
> tracking systems, which is a deal-breaker for many potential users.
> Plus not clear if they are supported properly. I'd be very happy to reuse
> existing code instead of re-inventing a wheel, but sometimes you have to
>  own the "whole stack" of technologies if you want to be able to move
> quickly, you just can't wait for months for open-source projects to add a
> fix or feature you need...
> but I'll give those connectors another try and see what's new there.

Right, I can say that for instance the mantisbt core plugin depends on
the mylyn tasks ui plugin for some functionality. So it's probably a
dead end, but I was curious if you need manage to reuse those plugins.

>
> on another subject -
> What do you think about switching Mantis to REST API and implementing a Java
> API for it?

I'd love for that to happen. But there's a lot which needs to go in
before. MantisBT does not have a service layer which would be usable
by the web interface, SOAP API , and a potential new REST API  . Right
now the SOAP API duplicates some functionality from the core, and I
for one don't see a bright future for another API duplicating that
functionality. As as I for one do not have the time to create that
service layer, I'm content with incremental improvements to the SOAP
API.

I know that Axis is troublesome in OSGi environments , and that's one
argument for a simpler, REST, API. Other than that, do you see any
major drawbacks in the current SOAP API?

Robert

>
>
> On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 12:24 PM, Robert Munteanu <rob...@gm...>
> wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 10:21 PM, Alexey Skor <al...@gm...> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi, Robert!
>>> No worries. The reason why we needed to solve this Axis1-OSGI problem is
>>> that we have several plugins for bug trackers, including MantisBT and
>>> Atlassian Jira. Unfortunately, they both use SOAP and moreover - the very
>>> old features of SOAP, which are not even supported by Axis2.
>>> Jira has introduced a new REST-based API, which gradually replaces the
>>> old SOAP-based one.
>>> Would be very nice if MantisBT could do the same, this would simplify
>>> developers lives. See how it's done in Redmine, Atlassian Jira and Github.
>>> (Although Redmine didn't have a java library to access the API, so we had to
>>> create our own: http://code.google.com/p/redmine-java-api/). so if at all
>>> possible it would be great if in addition to creating a REST API for
>>> MantisBT you would also implement a Java library for it.
>>
>>
>> Do you by any change build on the Mylyn framework? Your application looks
>> like it's built on Eclipse RCP and those bug trackers have Mylyn support.
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Here's a link to our application, which now supports MantisBT (thanks to
>>> your OSGI suggestion):  http://taskadapter.com/
>>> You're very welcome to try it out and share your thoughts about it.
>>
>>
>> Looks like a very nice and useful app. I'll give it a try next week.
>>
>> Robert
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks again. Alexey.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 12:11 PM, Robert Munteanu
>>> <rob...@gm...> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for following up, I've added this information to the Mantis docs.
>>>> Not sure when they will be published/regenerated though. Probably within 24
>>>> hours.
>>>>
>>>> Robert
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 10:00 AM, Alexey Skor <al...@gm...> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> we were able to reuse Axis OSGI bundle stored in standard Eclipse
>>>>> repository, this solved our problem.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 4:03 PM, Alexey Skor <al...@gm...> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thank you, Robert. We'll try...
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 12:29 AM, Robert Munteanu
>>>>>> <rob...@gm...> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hi Alexey,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 1. I have used Axis in OSGi environments, Eclipse has such a bundle.
>>>>>>> See https://github.com/Mylyn-Mantis/mylyn-mantis for a working
>>>>>>> example.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 2. Have you tried JAX-WS ? I know Jeremie Lagarde has done some work
>>>>>>> in this direction, see https://github.com/jerr/mantis-ws-client
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Robert
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 5:18 AM, Alexey Skor <al...@gm...>
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>> > I added my comment to the old question
>>>>>>> > here: http://www.mantisbt.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=19571
>>>>>>> > Axis1 can't be used in OSGI
>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>> > (see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4566580/strange-interaction-with-axis-osgi ),
>>>>>>> > so I'm trying to use Axis2 to generate Java classes from Mantis
>>>>>>> > WSDL, but it
>>>>>>> > does not support rcp/encoded.
>>>>>>> > Any solutions?
>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>> > --
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