[esb-java-dev] tomcat/war support

[Sanjiva Weerawarana]

Did you try to engage Synapse against an Axis2 service and see whether you 
could mediate the messages? That's the key thing we need to be able to do!

Sanjiva.

Upul Godage wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I was able to run Synapse SNAPSHOT on Axis2 1.3 WAR on top of Tomcat 5 
> Servlet container. I have run some Synapse samples. Axis2 Version web 
> service ran without any problems with Synapse deployed.
> 
> What I did was,
> Deployed Axis2 1.3 WAR in Tomcat 5.
> In the exploded WAR,
> - added Synapse mar module.
> - module entry in axis2.xml
> - 4 Synapse jars + 2 Sandesha jars in axis2 WAR lib directory
> - Synapse configuration xml given as a system variable (-D...) synapse.xml
> - Synapse home directory given as a system variable (-D...) for file 
> locations when some samples needed files. e.g. WSDL file for proxy service
> 
> Upul
> 
> On 8/30/07, *Upul Godage* <upulg.dev at gmail.com 
> <mailto:upulg.dev at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Hi,
> 
>     I was able to run Synapse SNAPSHOT on Axis2 1.3 WAR on top of Tomcat
>     5 Servlet container. I have run some Synapse samples. Axis2 Version
>     web service ran without any problems with Synapse deployed.
> 
>     What I did was,
>     Deployed Axis2 1.3 WAR in Tomcat 5.
>     In the exploded WAR,
>     - added Synapse mar module.
>     - module entry in axis2.xml
>     - 4 Synapse jars + 2 Sandesha jars in axis2 WAR lib directory
>     - Synapse configuration xml given as a system variable (-D...)
>     synapse.xml
>     - Synapse home directory given as a system variable (-D...) for file
>     locations when some samples needed files. e.g. WSDL file for proxy
>     service
> 
>     Upul
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
>         On 8/30/07, *Asankha C. Perera* <asankha at wso2.com
>         <mailto:asankha at wso2.com>> wrote:
> 
>             Sanjiva
>             >  what I'm saying is that it should be possible for someone
>             to use
>             >  Synapse/ESB as a regular old Axis2 module without anything
>             extra! The
>             >  limitations you mention are part of Axis2 (and any other
>             WS-* runtime
>             >  that uses regular servlets) too - and its something users
>             are willing
>             >  to live with obviously (for some scenarios at least).
>             Upul looked into this today, but so far the response from
>             Synapse did
>             not reach the actual client that sent the request to
>             Synapse. This
>             requires a bit of debugging to find out the root cause.. I
>             will update
>             on this as soon as we know something.
>             >  I still don't understand why you're opposed to just making
>             it work
>             >  right as a "regular" Axis2 module and simply document all the
>             >  limitations it comes with!
>             No.. I am not opposed.. but I think the non-servlet model is
>             better
>             suited.. maybe I am wrong. We will certainly support both
>             options anyway
>             for 1.1 release, and as soon as Upul figures out what needs
>             to be done
>             we could discuss specifics
>             >  Oh BTW have you guys made progress with moving the NIO
>             transport to
>             >  Axis2? Axis2 needs that too for sure.
>             Yep.. this went into the Axis2 1.3 release
> 
>             thanks
>             asankha
> 
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