SOCKET

SOCKET Demo

There is a socketized Bods demo at:

http://socket.leeds.ac.uk/bodington/site/

Interested parties are welcome to use the guest account:

username: guest
pw: guest1

The SOCKET links lead to the QMShibb sub-project and the main
sub-project. The QMShibb page has shibbed links to a
QuestionMark Perception test, a list of tests and the admin app (to
which 'guest' will not have access).

We have put up 2 SOCKET web services and a 'SOCKET web
application'. (The create SOCKET service tool will not be visible to a
guest user.)

The web service producers are on an external server, while the
consumer apps are in socket.leeds.ac.uk along with the bodington
instance.

Chemical Elements

This is one of our test services. The stylesheets are development
versions - we are making no claims that these are fit for teaching
purposes.

Jabber

We have plugged in a Jabber applet which is served out from a remote server in a jsp. (The Jabber server uses an
embedded Hypersonic. Wouldn't want any conflict with
QuickBods.)

I simply chose what looked like the simplest Jabber applet around:
e4Applet 1.1.1

You can sign on with Jabber account:

username: guest01
password: socket01

You can join the following room:

socket@conference.webforwireless.co.uk

No pw required.

SSRun

Although we will sign off with the ability to handle complex data
types, the present socket engine handles simple datatypes only -
strings, ints, floats, doubles, booleans, dates. (Client-side js
validation comes as standard.) However, we have set up the
JISC/Icodeon ASSIS/SSRun web service and passed the wsdl
through the engine. The test data has not been loaded into the
Web service and there are complex data types so the service is
not functional, but this gives a basic impression of what the final
turnkey product will do. As with Chemical Elements, there has
been absolutely no tinkering with the Java, only some stylesheet
tweaks (I added a fetching orange/yellow gradient fill to SSRun, for
example). Two extremely valuable operations are working, though: ping and
createRunId, proving that the service is live.

We will be putting up a SOCKET development release soon, with
perhaps a couple more over the next few weeks leading up to 1.0:
simple types; arrays; complex types included.

For further information: email me, sign into Jabber Bods and I'll be
clayton ( or Brian: b.p.clark at leeds dot ac dot uk )

Posted at 03:04PM Aug 10, 2006 by Brian Peter Clark in General  |