[jdev] Eventing and SOAP

Mon Aug 11 13:49:21 CDT 2008

Jonathan Dickinson wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
>  
> 
> I am looking at the integration points for my server now (specifically 
> into the product that my employer develops). It is a workflow solution 
> (www.k2.net <http://www.k2.net>), and I am trying to figure out the best 
> way to notify users that they have work in such as way that:
> 
>  
> 
> 1.       IM clients apart from our own still tell the user that they 
> have work. A Sharepoint web address or such would be given in the body 
> of the message.
> 
> 2.       Our IM client detects that an agent (mobile agent 
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_agent>) is present in the stanza 
> and fires it up instead of giving the user the message.
> 
>  
> 
> My thoughts are to simply do the following:
> 
> <message from="worklist.k2workflow.com" to="fred at k2workflow.com" 
> type="message">
> 
>   <body>You have work. Visit 
> http://www.denallix.com/workitem.aspx?uid=12345abc</body>
> 
>  <agent xmlns="urn:com:k2:agent"><!-- Agent description XML here --></agent>
> 
> </message>
> 
>  
> 
> I need to know if any clients would possibly have problems with a stanza 
> in that form, or maybe if someone has a better idea :). Thanks in advance.

That should be just fine.

> AND… I also gave some more thought to SOAP and a nice clean <pun> way to 
> implement discovery within a jabber context alone. I thought of using 
> UDDI over XMPP (as it is itself a SOAP standard), this is merely a 
> suggestion, but how about the following:
> 
>  
> 
> <iq type='result'
> 
>     from='shakespeare.lit'
> 
>     to='romeo at montague.net/orchard'
> 
>     id='info1'>
> 
>   <query xmlns='http://jabber.org/protocol/disco#items'>
> 
>     <item jid='uddi.shakespeare.lit'
> 
>           node='uddi'
> 
>           name='SOAP discovery service'/>
> 
>     <item jid='foo at uddi.shakespeare.lit'
> 
>                 node='urn:myservices:foo'
> 
>                 name='Some service'/>
> 
>   </query>
> 
> </iq>
> 
>  
> 
> My syntax may all be wrong, but I am sure you get the idea. The client 
> could the start doing UDDI calls against the uddi.shakespeare.lit node. 
> Also (as demonstrated) the server can broadcast any SOAP services it 
> supports upfront.

UDDI? Ick. But if you must, it seems fine to advertise the existence of 
UDDI services over XMPP -- we could define a new disco identity for that 
and register it here:

http://www.xmpp.org/registrar/disco-categories.html

I suggest the "directory/uddi" identity.

Once you discover such a service, how would you interact with it? Is 
that just straight SOAP as in XEP-0072?

Peter

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