SOCKET

Sumer is acumen in..

..and so is the next release of SOCKET. The Java commission has been completed and the amended Rose SOCKET factory now handles infinitely nested datatypes as well as attachments. Thanks to Atif Suleman who carried out the coding. The task was made significantly easier by using some classes from the Spring codebase. I suspect that this might have saved us a couple of weeks during the original project. Shoot the architect!

The new code is now in HEAD in our SourceForge CVS repository. After some prettying up of the XSLT and CSS style sheets I think that we will be ready to take SOCKET out of beta. (Just when the fashion turns to "permanent beta" we emerge from this state. Had to do it.)

Once the stylesheets are fit for looking at (the garish orange is a bit much, I'm told) I think we'll put up a couple of animated screen captures on what SOCKET can do now.

Even as the capabilities of IDEs such as NetBeans and Eclipse make the creation of Java clients for Web services the matter of literally a couple of button clicks, SOCKET has still got its nose in front with a paste-and-click generation of a Web app client for a Web service. As someone that is constantly sniffing around and testing Web services, SOCKET must have saved me hundreds of hours in the last year or so.

Posted at 06:04PM May 06, 2008 by Brian Peter Clark in General  |