Re: [Springframework-developer] ActiveSOAP

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On 5 Nov 2004, at 13:31, Dmitriy Kopylenko wrote:
> James,
>
> just out of curiosity - any progress on AS/Spring integration?

We've made some progress, albeit indirectly. We've got JMS message 
driven bean stuff working in Spring via the JCA container. We've got 
JMS based remoting working reasonably well.

Now currently ActiveSOAP doesn't particularly require Spring or have 
any Spring related demos;. The whole of the Active* stack is developed 
to drop nicely into Spring; so I don't see any particular change 
required in ActiveSOAP to work nicely in Spring. For ActiveSOAP for 
example, I see Spring as the ideal container/glue/framework to wire 
together handlers, transports and pipelines.  Similar kinds of things 
are being done at the moment in the straight JMS type worlds too. Ditto 
for remoting.

So I see the 3 different things kinda merging together somewhat; using 
Spring to wire remoting and JMS / SOAP messaging stuff together. We're 
pretty much there right now, though the current missing piece is to use 
ActiveSOAP as a web service based remoting layer in Spring. Given how 
easy it was to add JMS remoting to Spring, it'll be similarly easy for 
ActiveSOAP.

I'm hopeful that it'll be all sorted (including polishing off the JMS 
remoting in Spring) in the next 1-2 weeks, day-job allowing. As an 
aside, we've a customer using ActiveSOAP who wants closer integration 
with JMX; so the ActiveSOAP <-> Spring integration might get improved 
fairly quickly while reusing Spring's JMX support too... (which all the 
Active* stack could use better JMX integration, hopefully via Spring to 
avoid too much JMX muck in the code).

James
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