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<book>
<title>User Guide</title>
<bookinfo>
<date>February, 16th 2010</date>
<author>
<firstname>Brian</firstname>
<surname>Rosenberger</surname>
<email>bru@brutex.de</email>
</author>
<corpname>Brutex Network</corpname>
<pubdate>1997</pubdate>
<copyright><year>2010</year></copyright>
<legalnotice>
<para>The copyright holders make no representation about the
suitability of this document for any purpose. It is provided
<quote>as is</quote> without expressed or implied warranty.</para>
</legalnotice>
<legalnotice>
<para>Apache Tomcat and Apache Ant are trademarks of the Apache
Software Foundation.</para>
</legalnotice>
<abstract>
<title>Abstract</title>
<para>In complex IT environments it is necessary to integrate
different information systems with each other, exchange data
between tools and automate actions and function calls depending
on events arising from user interaction. To meet the requirements
of integration building usually means to implement APIs and to
create tool-to-tool bridges. Web Services can help to clean up
bridges into interfaces as well as to abstract functions from
their underlying platform and implementation.</para>
<para>These are the major goals of the loosely coupled
integration strategy which is in turn one essential idea of a
service-oriented architecture (SOA).</para>
<para>provide a low level set of functions and web services.
These can be orchestrated into services and used in business
processes which make up the execution part of a SOA
environment.</para>
<para>is an add-on to XBridgeNG 2.0. It runs standalone or in
combination with XBridgeNG. Pure XBridgeNG has two
components:</para>
<para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>XML Schema for item based data types (e.g. tickets
from a bug tracker system or a database record)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Set of Apache Ant tasks to function as a bridge
between the XBridgeNG XML format at legacy 3rd party
software (e.g. HP Quality Center, Serena TeamTrack,
...)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>The add Web Services (SOAP) wrapper around Apache Ant
tasks (since XBridgeNG 2.0)</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</para>
<para>The current focus is on file-based operations. do not
contain an integration server or a process execution
engine.</para>
</abstract>
</bookinfo>
<chapter>
<beginpage />
<title>Getting started</title>
<para>This chapter describes the installation.</para>
<sect1>
<title>Prerequisites</title>
<para>tbd.</para>
<para>Sun Java SE 1.6.0</para>
<para>Apache Tomcat 6</para>
</sect1>
<sect1>
<title>Installation</title>
<para>tbd.</para>
<para>In short: Deploy .WAR file to Apache Tomcat</para>
<sect2>
<title>Securing with Basic Authentication</title>
<para>There is a quick guide explaining Basic Authentication
for Tomcat here:</para>
<para>
<ulink url="http://oreilly.com/pub/a/java/archive/tomcat-tips.html?page=1"/></para>
</sect2>
<sect2>
<title>Limit access to</title>
<para>Sometimes you'll only want to restrict access to to
only specified host names or IP addresses. This way, only
clients at those specified addresses can use the web services.
Tomcat provides two configuration values for that:
RemoteHostValve and RemoteAddrValve.</para>
<para>These Valves allow you to filter requests by host name or
by IP address, and to allow or deny hosts that match. The
example below restricts access to the ArchiveService from any
machine that is not the local host.</para>
<programlisting language="xml"><Context path="/XService/ArchiveService" ...>
<Valve className="org.apache.catalina.valves.RemoteAddrValve"
allow="127.0.0.1" deny=""/>
</Context></programlisting>
<para>If no allow pattern is given, then patterns that match
the deny attribute patterns will be rejected, and all others
will be allowed. Similarly, if no deny pattern is given,
patterns that match the allow attribute will be allowed, and
all others will be denied.</para>
<para>The <context> element must be placed into the
server.xml file (into <engine><host>).</para>
</sect2>
</sect1>
</chapter>
<chapter>
<title />
<section>
<title>ArchiveServices</title>
<para>The ArchiveService bundles file packing operations. Its
WSDL is located at
http://server:port/XServices/ArchiveService?wsdl</para>
</section>
<section>
<title>ExecuteServices</title>
<para>The ExecuteService bundles local and remote command
execution operations. Its WSDL is located at
http://server:port/XServices/ExecuteService?wsdl</para>
<section>
<title>runCommand</title>
<para>Run an executable with arguments on the server providing
the web service. The command is run within the environment and
under the user privileges of the user who is running the Tomcat
Server.</para>
<section>
<title />
<para />
<table frame="all">
<title>runCommand input parameters</title>
<tgroup cols="4">
<colspec colname="parameter" colnum="1"/>
<colspec colname="type" colnum="2"/>
<colspec colname="required" colnum="3"/>
<colspec colname="description" colnum="4"/>
<thead>
<row>
<entry>parameter</entry>
<entry>type</entry>
<entry>required</entry>
<entry>description</entry>
</row>
</thead>
<tbody>
<row>
<entry>executable</entry>
<entry>String</entry>
<entry>Yes</entry>
<entry>Command to be run. The command may be
specified with full path using forward slash
"/" as path separator.</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>argline</entry>
<entry>String</entry>
<entry>No</entry>
<entry>Any command line arguments</entry>
</row>
</tbody>
</tgroup>
</table>
<para />
</section>
</section>
</section>
</chapter>
<chapter>
<title>XML Types</title>
<para>This chapter bundles the documentation for common xml types
used by XServices web service.</para>
</chapter>
</book>