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Boris Dushanov

Exposing XForm as a web service

Hi all,

I'm researching the possibility to expose a xform as a web service which could
process a soap request and through user interaction reply to the caller.I will
describe my use case in brief :
1.expose xform as a service and provide a wsdl
2.call that service using the wsdl
3.the request is handled,data is extracted from it and shown in a proper xform
4.user looks at the data,check it,modifies it if needed and send back a
response to the service client

I'm wondering if this is possible with orbeon ? What I succeeded so far is to
implement simple web service in a .xpl file which returns some response without
user interaction.I'm, also wondering is it possible to generate an unique url
for every request sent to my xform service?

Thanks in advance !
Boris

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Erik Bruchez

Re: Exposing XForm as a web service

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Boris,

I am not sure I understand your use case. What do you mean by "expose
xform as a service". What do you call "xform" exactly?

Are you talking about an XForms document, meaning in the case of
Orbeon Forms an XHTML document containing XForms markup?

Orbeon Forms takes such XForms documents and produces a combination of
HTML and JavaScript as a result. The way this is usually done is that
a user, with a web browser, accesses Orbeon Forms, some machinery
runs, and then HTML is sent back to the browser. This has to take
place in the context of a request/response architecture.

How does that fit with what you describe below? When and where in the
process would the user interaction take place?

-Erik

On Feb 22, 2008, at 7:33 AM, Boris Dushanov wrote:

>
> Hi all,
>
> I'm researching the possibility to expose a xform as a web service
> which could
> process a soap request and through user interaction reply to the
> caller.I will
> describe my use case in brief :
> 1.expose xform as a service and provide a wsdl
> 2.call that service using the wsdl
> 3.the request is handled,data is extracted from it and shown in a
> proper xform
> 4.user looks at the data,check it,modifies it if needed and send
> back a
> response to the service client
>
> I'm wondering if this is possible with orbeon ? What I succeeded so
> far is to
> implement simple web service in a .xpl file which returns some
> response without
> user interaction.I'm, also wondering is it possible to generate an
> unique url
> for every request sent to my xform service?
>
> Thanks in advance !
> Boris
>
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