Hi all,I think another possible approach is to expose a new Javascript object as suggested by jpotts:
<bean id="yourService" parent="baseJavaScriptExtension"
class="com.yourcompany.alfresco.services.ScriptableYourServiceWrapper">
<property name="extensionName">
<value>yourService</value>
</property>
<property name="yourService" ref="externalServicesClient" />
</bean>
and then, as in my case, use the Apache CXF framework http://cxf.apache.org/ which is built on Spring and provides you more flexibility.The ScriptableYourServiceWrapper is nothing but this:public class ScriptableYourServiceWrapper extends BaseScopableProcessorExtension implements YourService{
private yourService yourServiceClient;
… your methods
}
and the YourServiceManager is something like this:public class yourServiceManager implements YourService{
private YourService yourServiceServiceImpl;
public void setYourService(YourService yourServiceClient) {
this.yourServiceServiceImpl = yourServiceClient;
}
}
The context for the external service is:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
xmlns:jaxws="http://cxf.apache.org/jaxws"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/context
http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.0.xsd
http://cxf.apache.org/jaxws http://cxf.apache.org/schemas/jaxws.xsd">
<context:annotation-config />
<jaxws:client id="yourServiceCxfClient"
serviceClass="yourServiceWebServiceSEIClass"
address="${yourServiceWebServiceURL.wsdl.url}" />
<bean id="yourServiceService"
class="yourServiceServiceImpl">
<property name="cxfYourServiceClient" ref="yourServiceCxfClient" />
</bean>
<bean id="externalServicesClient"
class="yourServiceManager">
<property name="yourService" ref="yourServiceService" />
</bean>
</beans>
The stubs for the service are obtained form the WSDL using a WSDL2Java command which gives you the Service Endpoint Interface to set as service class in the serviceClass property into the jaxws xml fragment.Once the context is created, from javascript you only have to invoke:yourService.yourMethod()
Hope this helps.Andrea
