Struts and Axis

[jack nick]

Hello all,

Have writing this application using Struts and now I need to provide certain functionality using Web Service. Am using Axis to do this. Now some of the functionality is to pick up data from a MYSQL database and have a datasource element in the struts-config.xml file.Using struts for the base applicaiton I pickup this datasource from the Action class.

How do I get around using this same datasource but from a class that I would like to publish as a web service

Any ideas would be deeply appreciated.

Cheers
Jack

[jack nick]

Any alternatives would do too. Really need a way out of this.

[Dirk Schreckmann]

I've not used AXIS. So, surrounding it may be issues that I'm not aware of.

Using struts for the base applicaiton I pickup this datasource from the Action class.

How do I get around using this same datasource but from a class that I would like to publish as a web service

It would seem to me that you've designed the Struts application poorly. It appears that your Action is doing too much.

If your Action were simply communicating with a Business Object, and the Business Object then accessed the data(source), then you could possibly simply publish a method or methods of the Business Object for your web service. I've done this on a few occasions.

So, perhaps you could refactor some of the data(source) access responsibility out of your Action and into a Business Object, then build your web service on top of that Business Object.

[jack nick]

Thank Dirk,
I see the light in what you say. But have just one problem in doing this. I normally get the datasource from the action class using

getDataSource(request,"mysql")

where in the action class provides me with the request object. Its this data source that I pass to my business object and provide all the functionality out there.

Have I to get the datasource object from the struts config file, would I not have to have a request object. Simple put how do i get the datasource from a stand alone business object .

Cheers
Jack

[vo vinh]

Did you find any solution jack nick ?
I am dying for that, too. I have a wep app, using EJB hibernate annotation and struts, however I cant retrieve or store data into database( i am using mysql).

[David Newton]

DontWakeTheZombies, particularly when it's a very different issue.