[Wsf-general] Messaging project concept

[Sanjiva Weerawarana]

Hi James,

First of all sorry for the delay in replying. I read the doc when u first 
sent it but didn't get a chance to think thru it and reply.

Very interesting. I agree with most of it, but not the proposed 
implementation plan .. as u probably expected :).

First of all, this would be a straightforward set of python scripts that 
uses wsclient underneath. Obviously that won't support adding transports 
with python etc. but it'll solve business problem: provide a tool to move 
data from one machine to another. The intermediary would be a 
straightforward configuration of the ESB. Are you actually suggesting that 
we re-write SOAP/WS-Sec*/RM etc. all in Python?? I must be mis-reading it.

It seems to me its key to figure out who the audience is. If its for 
"users" to move files around, then we shouldn't expose things like 
transport selection, endpoint selection etc. to them (as much as 
possible). This feels like a solution that we'd be doing over our stuff 
(like the identity solution): WSO2 Secure Messaging Solution. (BTW this, I 
believe, is what we're doing with Zend in France.)

If the target is for developers to use to exchange data between machines 
reliably then the UI would be different but not by much. Again I still see 
it as a simple python script that uses wsclient underneath. Server side 
would another python script that uses wsf/c with a thttpd type embedded 
transport.

I won't answer the questions yet because it depends a lot on the positioning.

Sanjiva.

James Clark wrote:
> I've written up the concept for a new project/product focusing on
> messaging functionality:
> 
>  http://www.wso2.org/wiki/display/wsf/Telegon+Project
> 
> This is based on some discussions Paul and I had in London.
> 
> Comments are, as always, welcome.
> 
> James
> 
> 
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