Monday, September 16, 2002

Java Community Server functional Finally have the basics of Java Community Server working with Radio. However, now I'm questioning whether it's worth the trouble. Would anyone actually use it? I can see it being useful to extend and experiment with. But in order to keep it in sync with Radio you literally need to analyze the traffic since the xmlStorageSystem spec. is so out-dated Here's a few possible uses (Brainstorming): Use and customize for a Radio environment where you might want to run the xmlStorage server in a J2EE environment. Maybe on an Intranet Create a custom weblog client and extend the server to experiment with various search capabilties, voting, rankings, etc... Replacement for FTP or SCP - save and delete files off a server via XML-RPC or SOAP Simple web site management. Generate docs with velocity locally and use the server to keep remote docs in sync Simple softtware or documentation updates for a group of applications. Applications could join the cloud via the server. Ping the server occasionally for some interesting stats, and move maybe software documentation or code back and forth. If anyone has other ideas or interest it please drop me a line 9:58:48 PM

Quick notes on the xmlStorageSystem Here's a quick note on some problems I ran into while implementing the xmlStorageServer. I plan to add these to a story once I get some free time. Thanks to Phillip's advise and his xml-rpc debug proxy I was able to resolve the issues Radio makes an XML-RPC call to rcsCommunityServer.getInitialResources() the first time it starts registerUser does NOT pass the serialNumber param as outlined in the specification Radio actually passes the usernum NOT the email on every call Bottomline: implementing the spec. does not assure you that Radio will work with the server. 10:27:38 AM