SOCKET

The SOCKET Roadmap

Some new development work on SOCKET has just commenced to modify the Rose factory so that it will be able to deal with nested complex datatypes in the WSDL. It will also be able to handle file attachments. These additions will greatly increase the range of services that SOCKET will be able to process. The work is scheduled to be completed mid-September.

Completion of this work will signal the start of more development. Firstly, Java Management Extensions (JMX) instrumentation will be added to the SOCKET client in order to provide a monitoring and configuration interface. Service performance metrics will be available to a management application.

Also, users will be able to customise operation and parameter names in the stylesheets, again through a management application.

Having the JMX agent incorporated into the SOCKET client is an important addition in that it will eventually help integration into a SOLA and will also enable configuration of Shibboleth/Guanxi protection of the application.

The final item on the medium distance SOCKET roadmap is to replace the homegrown XSLT handling by the excellent Cocoon framework. This should lead a lot more functionality and flexibility in the view layer.

Posted at 12:46PM Aug 12, 2007 by Brian Peter Clark in General  |