Web Services

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Web Services ProActiveVirginie
Legrandvirginie.legrand_at_sophia.inria.fr

• A new HTTP Communication Layer
• How to expose an active object as Web Service ?
• Interoperability .net/C and ProActive

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1. HTTP communication layer

• Why ?
• Facilitate firewalls crossing between ProActive
  runtimes
• How ?
• Encapsulate ProActive Requests into HTTP
• Usage
• Transport configuration in a XML file
• ? Fully transparent !

JVM
HTTP Response
HTTP Server
HTTP Request
HTTP Server

JVM
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2. Active objects as Web Services

• Why ?
• Make active objects accessible from any foreign
  language
• How ?
• HTTP Web Server
• Extended SOAP Engine (Apache SOAP or Axis)
• Usage
• ProActive.exposeAsWebService()
• ProActive.unExposeAsWebService()

JVM
Web Server
Web Service Client
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3. .net / C interoperability
Client Java/ProActive
JVM
ProActive communications
SOAP
Distributed object
?
?
SOAP Engine
Java ProActive client
Web Server
C client