SOCKET

Saturn and Pluto

Atif has just finished off two clients for the SOCKET engine, a command line tool, codenamed "Pluto", and a Web application, named "Saturn". A screenshot of Saturn is given below.

Credit: The Hubble Heritage Team (AURA/STScI/NASA).

One inputs the absolute URL of the WSDL document and, on submission of the form, a download link is returned for the service consumer war file.

A screen shot of Pluto in action is given below:

The sprint to the line is now on with the major remaining tasks, the most important being the handling of complex types. The grunt work has been done for this: essentially the job is to unravel a JavaBean to simple types where the existing SOCKET code can take over.

Posted at 05:47PM Aug 14, 2006 by Brian Peter Clark in General  |