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Web-enabling your CORBA server
Important
To provide a url for each of the business operations you want to expose to the internet
users:
1 Append the web application name to the company root url.
For example:
http://www.bank.com/accounts
where accounts is the web application name.
By default, your web application is not made available through the web server. In
order to make it available through Apache, you must add some information to the
web application descriptor. For step-by-step instructions on how to do so, go to the
Management Console User's Guide.
2 Append a name that is meaningful to users for the method in the web application
that you want to expose.
For example:
http://www.bank.com/accounts/balance
where balance is the meaningful name for the balance() method.
Implementing the ReqProcessor IDL in your CORBA server
The ReqProcessor IDL allows communication between a web server and a CORBA
server using IIOP. Once you implement the ReqProcessor IDL in your CORBA server,
http requests can be passed from your web server to your CORBA server.
In implementing this IDL, you must expect the request url as part of the HttpRequest and
invoke the appropriate CORBA method in response to that url.
IDL Specification for ReqProcessor Interface
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module apache {
struct NameValue {
string name;
string value;
};
typedef sequence NVList;
typedef sequence OctetSequence_t;
struct HttpRequest {
string authType; // auth type (BASIC,FORM etc)
string userid; // username associated with request
string appName; // application name (context path)
string httpMethod; // PUT, GET etc,
string httpProtocol; // protocol HTTP/1.0, HTTP/1.1 etc
string uri; // URI associated with request
string args; // query string associated with this request
string postData; // POST (form) data associated with request
boolean isSecure; // whether client specified https or http
string serverHostname; // server hostname specified with URI
string serverAddr; // [optionally] server IP address
specified with URI
long serverPort; // server port number specified with URI
NVList headers; // headers associated with this request format:
header-name:value
};
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