[wsf-c-dev] Re: [] XMPP server side transport

[Damitha Kumarage]

>What if think about this like this. A transport is an abstract entity which is 
>been used by the server and the client both to send messages to each other.
>
>With that, HTTPTranport is a Transport, TCPTransport is a Transport, 
>XMPPTransport is a Transport.
>
>So now the problem is pushed down to a level where we only need to worry about 
>delivering a message from A to B. HTTP can do that, TCP can do that, XMPP can 
>do that too.
>
>When I want to chat with some one I have mention the jabber ID of that 
>individual so that jabber can find the end point to deliver the message, like 
>in HTTP we have to tell an URL or in TCP IP:PORT.
>
>So then the question is how much do we have of such a XMPP transport at this 
>point?
>
>Does this make sense with the current Axis-C design?
>
>  
>
What Ishan has implemented is a xmpp client transport which enable us to 
expose a axis2 serivce
as following

    chat_client ---------------------->jabber 
server------------------------->axis2_service
                      <---------------------                       
<-----------------------
In testing scenario we type a soap message in the chat window which is 
wrppaed in the xmpp message body and sent to the jabber server. 
axis2_service will receive this(as a chat client) and
using xmpp client transport(implemented using iksemel as parser) extract 
the soap message and pass to the axis2c engine. Then the response from 
the service is again wrapped inside the xmpp message and sent back to 
the chat client.
AFAIK this is what ishan has implemented as xmpp client transport. I 
think to enabling the required scenario what we need to do is
axis2c_client ---------------------->jabber 
server------------------------->axis2_service
                     <---------------------                       
<-----------------------

I think this involve relatively easy work since ishan has implemented 
and tested the first scenario.

So we can get rid of implementing a xmpp server transport which will be 
a tedios task.

Damitha