> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: [hidden email] [mailto:[hidden email]] Im Auftrag von Erik
> Bruchez
> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 21. September 2011 06:46
> An: [hidden email]
> Betreff: [ops-users] Re: Retrieving information from an other server in XPL
> (same domain/proxied)
>
> Thorsten,
>
> You might not be able to make this fully server-independent, but you could
> certainly use a property in your properties-local.xml. In there:
>
> * create your own property, e.g.:
>
> <property as="xs:string"  name="my.property.name"
>     value="http://my.cms.com"/>
>
> * in your submissions, use:
>
> <xforms:submission
> resource="{xxforms:property('my.property.name')}/rest/of/path"
>
> This assumes you are writing your own XForms.
>
> -Erik
>
> On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 6:00 AM, Stumpf, Jens Thorsten
> <[hidden email]> wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> >
> >
> > I have several questions about Orbeon and its configuration.
> >
> >
> >
> > So I think I split them up in several posts.
> >
> > This post is about my attempt to retrieve information from an other
> > webservice/webserver running in the same domain.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > *The Technical Infrastructure*
> >
> >
> >
> > We have a CMS with all our relevant customer information and webpages
> > but it is also providing several specific XML documents to the XForms app
> instance.
> >
> > The CMS is a typical PHP system.
> >
> >
> >
> > Then additionally there is a webcontainer (Tomcat) which is delivering
> > web services.
> >
> > The first web service delivers XML documents containing descriptions
> > of our products and analogous stuff.
> >
> > The second web app within the web container is our Orbeon instance.
> >
> >
> >
> > So the Orbeon XForms rely on XML data from our CMS as well as on XML
> > data provided by our backend.
> >
> >
> >
> > Our infrastructure is set up internally for staging and test processes
> > and in an remote location in an seperated network for production.
> >
> > So the internal systems can not connect with the production systems
> > and vice versa.
> >
> >
> >
> > The XForms webapp is transparently proxied through to the webserver
> > and is thus reachable on the same domain and port as the web view of the
> CMS is.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > *The XForms Setup*
> >
> >
> >
> > For different customer requests we link from our Website (CMS) the
> > user transparently to the XForms app.
> >
> >
> >
> > The XForms app requests on "startup" documents from the backend and
> > additionally from the CMS. These provide contextual information for
> > the specific request.
> >
> > The requested data sources share exactly the same domain as the XForms
> > request.
> >
> >
> >
> > The web services are connected within XPL pipelines.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > *The Issue*
> >
> >
> >
> > Due to the shared webcontainer and domain it isn't a big issue to
> > address the other web service (/../service - which isn't that cool but ok).
> >
> > But we haven't been able to figure out how to connect to the CMS
> > without an full absolute URL (http://www.cms.test/xml/product).
> >
> >
> >
> > So currently I always have to change the setup of our Orbeon XForms
> > app when we deploy a new version.
> >
> > The deployed version differs on the setup server names. That's all.
> >
> > This manual change is error prone, cumbersome and can easily be
> > forgotten, especially because the number of requested sources from CMS
> is increasing.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > What I would like to achieve is to make the connection to the CMS as
> > well with a relative path or at least to change it automatically.
> >
> > Is there an option to retrieve the connecting host or connecting
> > server within the XPLs?
> >
> >
> >
> > Can you think of any solution except the trivial ant stuf fand other
> > batch thinks?
> >
> >
> >
> > Again, I don't need a specific solution - though that's of course
> > welcome - but would be glad to be pointed to the location where I can
> > find the needed information.
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks a lot in advance
> >
> >
> >
> > Thorsten
> >
> >
> >
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