ASP.Net Integration

1) Is it possible to run OPS under IIS?

2) Would it be possible to integrate with ASP.Net? We have application security and architecture already built in .Net but would like to leverage the power of XForms with OPS. I was thinking perhaps there would be a way to have IIS pass the request to ASP.Net application (as usual) then the ASP.Net application is responsible for authentication and building the XForm which is then passed to Orbeon XForm engine. Has anyone done anything like this? Perhaps this could be acheived with XPL?

Jonty wrote

1) Is it possible to run OPS under IIS?

2) Would it be possible to integrate with ASP.Net? We have application security and architecture already built in .Net but would like to leverage the power of XForms with OPS. I was thinking perhaps there would be a way to have IIS pass the request to ASP.Net application (as usual) then the ASP.Net application is responsible for authentication and building the XForm which is then passed to Orbeon XForm engine. Has anyone done anything like this? Perhaps this could be acheived with XPL?

OPS requires a java web container, such as Tomcat or Jetty.
I suppose you could run as such and then use webservices, where as you delegate 'requests' to your business layer.

Maybe there are other options but I leave that for others to pitch in.

Hi Jonty,

It has been a while since I managed IIS hosted sites,
However...

On May 12, 2008, at 2:27 PM, Jonty wrote:

>
> 1) Is it possible to run OPS under IIS?
>

Not directly, as Orbeon Forms is a Java Servlet application and so it  
requires
a Servlet Container like Tomcat.  That said, others have reported
running on Windows systems...it may have been Tomcat.

That said, it is common to put applications behind a front-end web
server where static pages or pages in another language (asp.net) are
presented along with Orbeon Forms pages.  Usually done by
proxy/url-rewrite for the OF pages.

Others have also suggested Inline Frames, at least as an attempt to
write one navigation framework (and not a second one in OF).
You cannot build an OF page with ASP.  Well, you could build it that way
I suppose, but I think the most direct way would be to use XPL/XLST  
within
OF and call the ASP services that provide the same data (as XML) that  
you
would have used to build the pages in ASP.

It might not be altogether bad to build services in ASP that are used
by either/both the ASP.net or OF pages. But in any case, OF "eats and  
drinks"
XML, so as long as you provide/expose XML web services, you can get
it to communicate.

The managing of authentication is possibly an issue, but as a guess, if
the OPS pages were only accessible via proxy/url-rewrite
then IIS should be the manager for all authenticated access and ssl
sessions.  Many, many applications do this -- tomcat behind Apache --
so they don't have to deal with the slower Tomcat encryption.

It may be that you need to use IFrames for IIS to be in complete control
of authentication (not just encryption).

Just some ideas,
Hank

Hank Ratzesberger
NEES@UCSB
Institute for Crustal Studies,
University of California, Santa Barbara
805-893-8042







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Jonty a écrit :
> 1) Is it possible to run OPS under IIS?
>
>  
Yes it's possible. In fact the question should be : Is it possile to run
tomcat under IIS ?
 You have to deal with Jakarta Isapi Redirector.
> 2) Would it be possible to integrate with ASP.Net? We have application
> security and architecture already built in .Net but would like to leverage
> the power of XForms with OPS. I was thinking perhaps there would be a way to
> have IIS pass the request to ASP.Net application (as usual) then the ASP.Net
> application is responsible for authentication and building the XForm which
> is then passed to Orbeon XForm engine. Has anyone done anything like this?
> Perhaps this could be acheived with XPL?
>  
I use ASP.Net as a data provider with Web Services. XForms are build in OF.
The WCF 3.5 provide a way to build RESTFull HTTP services.

HTH,

Marc


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