My goal is to set up a generic web service. By "generic" in this context I mean that, one should be able to run an arbitrary sequence of tools on the input (let's say a file). These tools are compiled programms installed on the server.
My idea was to specify each tool in a central WSDL
File. This WSDL
File is parsed and for each tool, included in the WSDL
file, a separate Service Class
is created, which executes the respective tool via apache commons exec.
Is it then possible to manually create a SOAP Message
in which the sequence of tools, one wants to perform on the input, is specified ? This SOAP Message
should then be parsed and the respective Service Classes
should be started.
I have to say I'm completely new to Web Service
programming and I'm gratefuly for any advice. The above is just an idea and I'm open for any better advice ;)
greetings,